My Only Sunshine: A Novel

By Lou Dischler

In 1962 the Cubans have their Russian missiles pointed right at the sugarcane plantations of Red Church, Louisiana, but nine-year-old Charlie Boone and his gravel-eating younger brother, Jute, are fixed on velvet ants and the declining health of a horse named Lunch Time. Their father has been sent upriver after a botched convenience store holdup and a walloping with a can of Crisco. Their mother, too, has vanishedMemaw and Pawpaw insist she disappeared in a hurricane. Buckle up for a big dose of Cajun comedy as Charlie takes charge.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1891885723
• ISBN13: 9781891885723
• Release Date: October 2010
• Publisher: Hub City Press
• Length: 219 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 7.4"