My sunshine away

Description:

A man reflects on the summer of his fourteenth year, where in Baton Rouge he fell in love with a golden-haired girl across the street before an unspeakable crime shattered illusions in his seemingly idyllic neighborhood. 1989. In a Baton Rouge neighborhood best known for cookouts on sweltering summer afternoons, Lindy Simpson-- track star, and belle of the block-- experiences a horrible crime. It becomes apparent that this idyllic stretch of Southern suburbia has a dark side, too. The suspects are numerous, including our narrator-- who discovers how life can be irreversibly transformed by heartbreak, guilt, and love.

subjects: First loves,  Fiction,  Families,  Dysfunctional families,  Fiction, family life,  Fiction, thrillers, general,  Fiction, coming of age,  Baton rouge (la.), fiction,  Fiction, thrillers,  Family life,  Fiction, family life, general

People: Dysfunctional families

Places: Baton Rouge,  Louisiana,  Baton Rouge (La.)