My Sunshine Away

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. Free Download [ My Sunshine Away ] author [ M.O. Walsh ] – kino-fada.fr With language wrought by skill and a plot never void of movement, M.O Walsh has written an ode to the power of memory, a beautiful examination of the balance between regret and hope This novel is about...I want to rely on my memory It s important that you understand this What else, besides love, do we have M.O Walsh s narrator wanders to and fro through the sultry days and nights of 1989 Baton Rouge, Louisiana A summer when he was somewhere between a boy and a man, consumed with a love only dreamt of by the young with Lindy Simpson, a fifteen year old free spirited girl Neighbors It was the summer everything changed Their charmed childhood unravels the moment Lindy is the object of I want to rely on my memory It s important that you understand this What else, besides love, do we have M.O Walsh s narrator wanders to and fro through the sultry days and nights of 1989 Baton Rouge, Louisiana A summer when he was somewhere between a boy and a man, consumed with a love only dreamt of by the young with Lindy Simpson, a fifteen year old free spirited girl Neighbors It was the summer everything changed Their charmed childhood unrav...I bought this book after reading several stellar reviews and spent my entire time reading it wishing I hadn t The story is told from the point of view of a grown man looking back 20 years, describing the story through the eyes of himself as a hormonal, love struck teen There is a horrible event that happens early in the book and then it meanders until the very end when a lackluster surprise reveal is supposed to shock the reader Unfortunately, no amount of reveal would have rectified readin I bought this book after reading several stellar reviews and spent my entire time reading it wishing I hadn t The story is told from the point of view of a grown man looking back 20 years, describing the story through the eyes of himself as a hormonal, love struck teen There is a horrible event that happens early in the book and then it meanders until the very end when a lackluster surprise reveal is supposed to shock the reader Unfortunately, no amount of reveal would have rectified reading page upon page of musings by an uninteresting, unlikeable kid surrounded by boring, cardboard characters And what the critics described as the author s ability to bring us back to the 1980s, t...This beautifully written melancholy story has me wrapped in a blanket of nostalgia for those bittersweet days of roaming the neighbor with a posse of kids in a time that felt safer but was not I need some time to digest this before I post my review to Goodreads not FB but I will say this was among the best writing I have ever read This resonated so deeply with me 5 million tearsI mean stars.I never wrote a review of this book but I still think about it often and plan to re read it befo This beautifully written melancholy story has me wrapped in a blanket of nostalgia for those bittersweet days of roaming the neighbor with a posse of kids in a time that felt safer but was not I need some time to digest this before I post my review to Goodreads not FB but I will say this was among the best writing I have ever read This resonated so deeply with me 5 million tearsI mean stars.I never wrote a review of this book but I still think about it often and plan to re read it before the...Suspenseful Literary Ballad of Boy s Path to True Manhood Husband, Father, Son and BrotherIt s rare to find a book that s so piercing, so damn good that it leaves you speechless for a spell, but it s Stradivarius rare to find a book that s mind tripping in the sense that, as I m reading, I think the protagonist was as close to being me as I ve ever read, move it over a state, my sisters are younger not older and my parents...This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers To view it, click here On the first page of My Sunshine Away, a fifteen year old girl is raped For the next 300 pages, the narrator, the girl s male classmate and neighbor, whines about how much her rape affects him On the literal second to last page of the book, he realizes life is not always about me and the unloading o...My Sunshine Away by M.O Walsh was selected by members of On the Southern Literary Trail as the post 1980 Group Read for April, 2015 This novel was nominated simultaneously by three separate Trail Members Special thanks to them.Walsh s debut novel is a bravura performance This is an upcoming author to watch.In brief, Walsh chronicles what appears the perfect world of a Baton Rouge privileged neighborhood The adults belong to the country club Husbands play golf Wives play tennis Their chil My Sunshine Away by M.O Walsh was selected by members of On the Southern Literary Trail as the post 1980 Group Read for April, 2015 This novel was nominated simultaneou...January book club read It was the summer that everything changed Debut Novel by M.O Walsh unfolds in a Baton Rouge Neighbourhood in the summer of 1989 when popular track star fifteen year old Lindy Simpson experiences a horrible crime late one evening in her neighbourhood No one witnessed the attack and but suspicion falls on everyone not least the nameless young narrator who has been spying on Lindy Simpson since he was 11 years old.What apparently started out as a typical school boy cr January book club read It was the summer that everything changed Debut Novel by M.O Walsh unfolds in a Baton Rouge Neighbourhood in the summer of 1989 when popular track star fifteen year old Lindy Sim...Beautiful beautiful. A special, poetic read and a book of rare quality 4.5, may change it to five, have to let it sink in It s not an easy read at least, not for me and it s not fast paced so I did spend some time getting into it, the story enfolds at a pace that rather fits the stiffling heat of the Louisiana swamps and you just have to adjust your pace too, it s too hot anyway to speed it up And then enjoy the story, the characters, the environment, the descriptions In Beautiful beautiful. A special, poetic read and a book of rare quality 4.5, may change it to five, have to let it sink in It s not an easy read at least, not for me and it s not fast paced so I did spend some time getting into it, the story enfolds at a pace that rather fits the stiffling heat of the Louisiana swamps an...The best kind of books make you feel them You will be reading along and gradually but surely your emotions take over For me, My Sunshine Away is one of those books M.O Walsh has written a moving story that made me contemplate how events from childhood contribute to the type of adults we become Everyone has a history Everyone is shaped by that history in one way or another...

• English
• 03 September 2018
M.O. Walsh
• Hardcover
• 306 pages
• 0399169520
• M.O. Walsh
• My Sunshine Away