My Sunshine Away - Softcover

Walsh, M. O.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 024100408X ISBN 13: 9780241004081

Publisher: Penguin Random House UK, 2016

Synopsis

My Sunshine Away

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Review:

The Amazon Debut Spotlight Selection for February 2015: After only 50 pages My Sunshine Away gave me the same feeling as other Southern novels that have long remained favorites; The Help and Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, to name two. How much of our future self is shaped by our first love, our early mistakes, and trading sweet innocence for the acrid recognition of cruelty? A lot, we discover, as we ride shotgun with a narrator who was fourteen the year that a crime against the girl he loved changed him irrevocably. This coming-of-age story set in a quiet Louisiana neighborhood touched by violence is by turns suspenseful and insightful, peppered with moments like this one that I want to commit to memory: “We were all middle-to-upper-class white kids, all the products of our parents’ success, and when we played with one another at school we played in the mirror.” –Seira Wilson

About the Author:

Milton O’Neal Walsh, Jr.’s stories and essays have appeared in The New York Times, Oxford American, American Short Fiction, Epoch, and Best New American Voices, among others. He is a graduate of the MFA program at the University of Mississippi and is currently the director of the Creative Writing Workshop at the University of New Orleans, where he lives and works, happily, with his wife and family.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Random House UK
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 024100408X
• ISBN 13: 9780241004081
• Binding: Paperback