Anderson Native’s Novel One of Family Emotions, Familiar Places — The Anderson Observer

Anderson Native’s Novel One of Family Emotions, Familiar Places — The Anderson Observer

Greg Wilson/Anderson ObserverThere is a certain longing that attaches itself to the towns of our youth—at times, sprawling and sunlit; at others, shrunk down to a single tennis match, a parent’s gaze, a can of salmon in the pantry. Michael Spake, Anderson native now transplanted to Florida by way of Hammond Acres and Huntington Hills, gives this yearning a shape and a name in “Life Close to the Bone,” a novel that shuttles between fiction and me…