num_pages: 306
description: It was the summer everything changed.... My Sunshine Away unfolds in a Baton Rouge neighborhood best known for cookouts on sweltering summer afternoons cauldrons of spicy crawfish and passionate football fandom. But in the summer of 1989 when fifteen-year-old Lindy Simpson--free spirit track star and belle of the block--experiences a horrible crime late one evening near her home it becomes apparent that this idyllic stretch of Southern suburbia has a dark side too. In My Sunshine Away M.O. Walsh brilliantly juxtaposes the enchantment of a charmed childhood with the gripping story of a violent crime unraveling families and consuming adolescent love. Acutely wise and deeply honest it is an astonishing and page-turning debut about the meaning of family the power of memory and our ability to forgive.
language: English
title: My Sunshine Away
publisher: Amy Einhorn Books