The Summer After June by Ashley Warlick

When Lindy's sister June is murdered, she takes June's baby and leaves - without telling anyone where she is going or why. This novel is about the summer that she is gone. We know that Lindy goes back, since the novel actually begins with the ending, in the form of a five page prologue where the reader learns that Lindy is going home. In the rest of the novel she comes to terms with what she has done and learns about herself and others.

Definitely a literary novel - Warlick is more concerned with Lindy and the other characters and the choices that they make than with any plot - and that's OK. I actually went to a workshop on POV choices taught by the author at the South Carolina Writer's Workshop which was great. She's a wonderful writer with some great insight.