She even considered buying a hair growth tonic she read about in a magazine. She begged Emma for a wig, but Emma refused. I Just Want to Be Normal: In middle school, Sunny became desperately embarrassed of her baldness.The money finally ran out in 1952, leaving a decaying town with surprisingly large houses. When the oil ran out, the wealthy inhabitants sold coal, then lumber. Dying Town: Sunny and Maxon grew up in Yates County, Pennsylvania, where oil was discovered in 1859.

'Double, Double' Title: Shine Shine Shine.Don't Make Me Take My Belt Off!: Maxon's father used to beat him with a wide variety of implements, including a belt.Dead Man Writing: After Emma's death, Sunny finds a letter written by her to Maxon, to be delivered to Sunny after her death, in which she admits that she turned Bob over to the authorities and got him executed so she and Sunny could leave Burma.Sunny names her daughter after her recently deceased mother Emma.Bubber was named after Sunny's father Bob Butcher, a missionary in Burma who was executed on the orders of Ne Win when Sunny was three.They were best friends throughout their childhood and realized their attraction to each other in high school. Childhood Friend Romance: Maxon and Sunny first met when Maxon was seven and Sunny was about six, when Maxon tried to hide out from his abusive father in a nearby abandoned farm only to find that Sunny and her mother had moved in.Celeb Crush: Newscaster Les Weathers is not only a local celebrity but also Sunny's neighbor, and is a crush object for many women in the neighborhood.When a fender bender causes Sunny's wig to fly off and an accident in space threatens Maxon's life, family secrets start coming to light. Her husband, Maxon, is a brilliant roboticist and astronaut on a mission to the Moon to start a colony of robots. Sunny Mann is a housewife in Norfolk, Virginia raising her four-year-old autistic son Bubber and trying to hide the fact that she is bald. Shine Shine Shine is a 2012 novel by Lydia Netzer.

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