Shadow in my heart

Author: (American) Elroy / Yuan Bing
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Publish Date: 2002-03-20
Features: I Heart is a crime psychological novel with strong autobiographical elements. My parents were the most beautiful and ordinary couple in Los Angeles. The "red-haired" girl was charming and solitary. After divorcing my father, she took me to a quiet, remote small town. She seemed to be avoiding something, but it was there that she was murdered in 1958. Her body was found exposed in the bushes by the roadside. The case remained unsolved, and the police dismissed it as a random incident during a rough weekend. I was ten years old then, feeling both hatred and longing for my mother. She was the source and standard of my spiritual and physical desires during that time and for the long period that followed. At the age of thirty-six, under the endless entanglement with her spirit, I worked with a famous detective to reopen the investigation, hoping to uncover the truth of the crime as a form of atonement. In 1994, I returned to Los Angeles, finally discovering my mother, myself, and everything.