![]() ![]() ‘I was over the moon last week after receiving the call telling me that ‘Shine’ was a finalist for the award,’ Myracle said in her statement. Myracle’s books, which include ‘ttyl’ and ‘ttfn,’ have often appeared on the most-challenged and most-banned lists released by the American Library Assn. The question at the center of ‘Shine’ is, who would beat him bloody with a baseball bat and leave him for dead? Patrick was well known in his hometown of 743 residents for being ‘light in his loafers’ or ‘swishy,’ as some of the townspeople called him. Seventeen-year-old Patrick Truman has been beaten and bound to a guardrail outside a convenience store with an antigay slur written in blood across his chest. Before Chapter 1 has even begun, that subject is revealed with a newspaper clipping. ![]() Its end pages are jet black, a not-so-subliminal indication of the novel’s dark subject matter. ‘Shine’ is dramatic in both content and presentation. It just does so in literary prose, following a 16-year-old girl as she attempts to solve an antigay hate crime in a small North Carolina town where methamphetamine use is rampant and illiteracy and unemployment rates run even higher. ![]() Myracle’s latest, ‘Shine,’ continues to trade in the forbidden. ![]()
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