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“The last page is as satisfying as the first.” —Kathryn Stockett
“I really loved this book... I can't praise it enough.”—Anne Rice
“It's a book to read and reread, one that will only get better with time.”—Tom Franklin
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.
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Release date
February 10, 2015 -
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OverDrive Listen audiobook
- ISBN: 9781101888131
- File size: 301162 KB
- Duration: 10:27:25
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Languages
- English
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Reviews
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Lindy was a happy, athletic girl until she was attacked one night in her own quiet neighborhood. This audiobook begins with this revelation of violence and spends the subsequent hours examining the crime, its aftermath, and its many and varied suspects--the story's first-person narrator being a part of that group. Kirby Heyborne voices the narrator with an eerie calm and a slow, methodical pace, both suited to the novel's languid Louisiana setting. However, given the dark subject matter, these features often give the story a creepiness that doesn't seem intended. All in all, Heyborne's performance is capable; his dialogue is well defined and his portrayal of individual characters is believable. The only problem may be that one does not want to believe any of it. L.B.F. © AudioFile 2015, Portland, Maine
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