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When his mother goes out to party one Saturday night and doesn't come back, seven-year-old Ishmael Hood is taken in by his estranged uncle Henry and Henry's live-in boyfriend, Sam. As this unlikely trio begins to build a new life together, they encounter both support and hostility in the small Mississippi town where they live. Seems like just about everybody has an opinion on the matter—and they're not shy about expressing it.
While this blossoming little family finds its feet, outside forces—and ghosts from the past—threaten to tear it apart. Henry, still trying to deal with the tragic death of his parents, finds himself hard-pressed to open his heart to this needy child.
Just as a little shine begins to come back into their lives, Ishmael's mother returns, and their world is thrown into chaos.
- Sales Rank: #413861 in eBooks
- Published on: 2015-07-24
- Released on: 2015-07-24
- Format: Kindle eBook
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful.
Flawlessly written, highly recommended
By Becky C
Review Get Your Shine On
With Get Your Shine On, Nick Wilgus continues to enthrall readers with true characters of the South. Not all of them are charming, good people, but all of them are charismatic and beautifully developed for the story.
Henry Hood and his live-in boyfriend Sam find themselves in charge of seven year old Izzy when Hen’s incredibly damaged sister Sarah leaves little Izzy home alone and skips town. Sarah has a past that is too troubled for her to be able to function as a mother, let alone to take proper care of herself. When the root of her problems is revealed the reader’s heart will break for the hopelessness of her situation. Sarah is one of society’s throwaway individuals and she is not the only victim of her past.
Izzy suffers from lack of parenting, no formal education, and possibly impaired intelligence, but what he does not suffer from is the inability to love. Sometimes Hen wants to give up on trying to raise this little boy, with no understanding of how to parent on top of poverty. His boyfriend Sam, however, realizes that he and Hen have fallen in love with Izzy and vows to create a family out of these scraps of humanity.
Hen lost his parents and although he wants to salvage his sister from her own self-destruction, without the full story of what has happened to Sarah he may not have the knowledge and tools to save her. He does love Sam with all his heart and Sam loves Hen, even when Hen tries to push Sam away. Sam may be my favorite character in this book.
The secondary characters of this story are sometimes the stars of the book. The incredibly hateful Miss Shirley stands out as a character who is unloveable as a human being. Or is she? Henry is a member of the Catholic church in the town of Vinegar Bend and one of the nuns, Sister Ascension, is determined to rescue Henry from his own feelings of worthlessness, even when the church cruelly turns its collective back on Hen.
Get Your Shine On is a book you cannot put down once you begin reading. I will warn those who may be subject to triggered flashbacks that there is reference to the rape and abuse of a child. It occurs off page and the victim is treated by the author with the respect and tenderness such horror deserves. This is a flawlessly written story that presents life with humor, wretchedness, and a heavy dose of reality.
Nick Wilgus is an author who knows and writes about the daily joys and tragedies of Southern small towns with all their flawed characters. I will read anything he writes without even looking at the blurb or cover, just because he’s that good. This book, like all of his works is highly, highly recommended.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
"Get Your Shine On" captures small-town life perfectly
By J. W. Crump
I really enjoyed "Get Your Shine On." It's a deeply emotional book, with heartache and redemption, all buffered by a hearty helping of laughter.
When seven-year-old Ishmael Hood's troubled mother goes out on a Saturday night and never comes back, it falls on her brother Henry to take the boy in. Henry, a barely blue-collar gay man wrestling with the aftermath of the tragic deaths of his parents, resists taking Ishy on, insisting he's not interested in parenthood. At least not yet. Henry's long-time partner, Sam, sees things differently and begins to bond with Ishy almost immediately.
As Henry wrestles to open his shuttered heart to this little boy, the small Southern town they live in shows no reluctance to expressing its feelings about the gay couple taking in a little boy. Extremely harsh and judgmental words are spoken, hammering the couple and especially Henry, but unexpected allies also show up. And just as the new little family begins to settle into comfort with each other, Ishmael's mother shows back up. Obstacles in the present and tragic ghosts from the past crowd in on the small family and it seems that the peace they've begun to build will be shattered.
Henry Hood, like Wiley Cantrell in the "Sugar Tree" books, is such an emotionally damaged character, so hammered by life but still wanting just to be able to have the things other people have - a home, a job, a family. It's hard for him to open his guarded heart, and one of the driving plots of the book is Henry's journey. While I started the book frustrated and impatient with Henry, I grew to love him as the book went on. As I said of Wiley in an earlier review, I wanted to hug Henry, then smack him upside the head, then hug him some more.
I love, especially, that one of the strongest supporters of Henry and the small family is Sister Ascension, a local nun. So often religion gets hammered in books about the struggles of gay existence, and it was refreshing that Sister Ascension was all about acceptance and love, from the start.
Reading "Get Your Shine On" was especially interesting and enlightening for me, since the fictional small town of Vinegar Bend, where Hen and Sam live, is located in Monroe County, Mississippi, where I live. Real-life places show up in slightly disguised versions. And while I didn't recognize any of the characters specifically, I had not the slightest bit of hesitation in recognizing their actions. The nosiness, the judgmentalism, but ultimately, the open-heartedness are dead-on for Southern small-town life. It made me uncomfortably aware of the kind of judgmentalism the author has probably had to put up with his entire life because of the way he was born, and I feel so bad about that.
Short review: If you loved Nick's two "Sugar Tree" books, you'll love "Get Your Shine On." The story is completely different and unrelated to the other two books, but the tone and execution of the book are similar.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
moving, humorous, honest story about a man who has to suddenly take care of his young nephew
By Sarah
Wow, this is a really great book! It is a moving, humorous, honest story about a man who has to suddenly take care of his young nephew, and how they eventually become a family, along with the man's long-time boyfriend. Unique, realistic, funny, emotional, very well-written. Great sense of place (set in a small town in the South). I loved the relationships between the little boy and his two uncles, and their relationship between each other. Highly recommended.
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