Summary: 1983. Newborn MTV. Cabbage Patch Kids. President Reagan. A U.S. – Soviet Cold War that threatens to go “hot” at any moment. Against this backdrop three teenagers begin a year of painful change and turmoil after the sudden loss of one of their closest friends, in Kevin Sharp‘s book “After Dakota.” Dakota meant different things to Cameron, Bryce, and Claire. When she disappears in a plane crash, they each have to face their own mortality, along with the secrets they still carry about her. More below the media player. Listen to Kevin Sharp The Indie Author Life Kevin Sharp is also author of the prizewinning short story “2012.” An excerpt: You are 18 years old. In Amy’s bedroom, listening to Annie Lennox. The ice has made your earlobe numb. She lies on her back, silent beneath the artificial stars on the ceiling. The lamp, sheathed in red silk, highlights downy hair on her arms. You realize in hindsight that this is the type of memory one might refer back to when asked to name “A time you were truly happy.” In later retellings (to yourself primarily) you make yourself truly happy by lessening your soon-to-be sizzling agony, intense need to [...]Similar Posts:Will This Teenager Step Up and Save His World?This Thief Steals Her Way Almost to Death‘American Psycho’ Meets ‘Sex & the…The Secret That Haunts A Presidential HopefulIs No One Left Who Knows Compassion Anymore? The post A Death That Changes Many Young Lives appeared first on The Bookcast.
