The Sparkling-Eyed Boy: A Memoir of Love, Grown Up
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
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).
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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