num_pages: 263
description: Boiled peanuts lovebugs and murder.Lies from the past and a dangerous present collide when after fifteen years in exile Michelle Miller returns to her tiny hometown of Lorida Florida. With her mother in the hospital she's forced to reckon with the broken relationships she left behind: with her family with friends and with herself.As a teenager Michelle felt isolated and invisible until she met Sissy a dynamic and wealthy classmate. Their sudden intense friendship was all-consuming. Punk rocker Morrison later joins their clique and they become an inseparable trio. They were the perfect high school friends bound by dysfunction bad TV and boredomuntil one of them ends up dead.Confronting the death of her best friend requires Michelle to face her past if she is going to survive. But what if everything she remembers is a lie? Or just as dangerous: What if it isn't?An ingenious debut from editor and publisher Davida Breier Sinkhole is a mesmerizing darkly comic coming-of-age thriller immersed in 1980s central Florida. A disturbing and skillful exploration of home friendship selfhood and grief set amidst golf courses mobile homes and alligators.
language: English
title: Sinkhole
publisher: University of New Orleans Press