The Sparkling-Eyed Boy: A Memoir of Love, Grown Up by Amy Benson
English | June 1st, 2018 | ISBN: 061843321X | 195 Pages | EPUB | 0.55 MB
A creative memoir reflecting on a long-ago summer love and the choices we make-"built on dreams and memories of what never happened, but could have" (USA Today).
A creative memoir reflecting on a long-ago summer love and the choices we make-"built on dreams and memories of what never happened, but could have" (USA Today).
Exploring the fault lines of adult nostalgia and desire, this work of creative nonfiction-a Bakeless Prize winner-re-creates the achingly intense adolescent summer days that Amy Benson and the sparkling-eyed boy spent together on the shores of the remote St. Mary's River of Michigan's Upper Peninsula.
For her, summers meant returning from her home in Detroit to a three-month idyll on much-loved family land, owned for generations, and to a heady culture of local boys. For him, this land is the place he was born, where he'll later find work, marry, and stay. In the span of a lifetime their encounters were relatively brief, but loaded with meaning. Here, her heart-stoppingly erotic-yet wholly imagined-scenes, her imaginings of different outcomes, and her searching riffs on love as possession, love as pain, read like a friend's deepest secrets, shared.
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