FICTION

My Sunshine Away

by M.O. Walsh
Amy Einhorn: Putnam. Feb. 2015. 320p. ISBN 9780399169526. $26.95; ebk. ISBN 9780698156029. F
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The kids of Piney Creek Road in Baton Rouge, LA, live simply and happily, dreaming about school dances and racing one another on their street. But one evening in the summer of 1989, a terrible crime takes place. The event reverberates in the community for years to come, especially for one 14-year-old boy who was forever changed by what happened. This debut novel from the author of the award-winning short story collection The Prospect of Magic is much more than a simple coming-of-age story; it is a rumination on how events in one's life can appear differently depending on where and when they are experienced and recalled.
VERDICT As a Baton Rouge native, Walsh gives the reader an intimate understanding of the place as if it were a beloved but misunderstood grandmother. Rarely does a new author display the skill to develop a page-turner with such a literary tone. Readers of both popular and literary fiction will get their fixes from this novel. [See Prepub Alert, 8/4/14.]
Reviewed by Shannon Greene, Greenville Technical Coll. Lib., SC , Nov 15, 2014
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