Sweeping Up Glass
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.96 (595 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0385343035 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 336 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-03-03 |
| Language | : | English |
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In quick succession, Olivia finds and loses love, gives birth, marries an unloved suitor and becomes a widow. (Aug.)Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. From Publishers Weekly Starred Review. Olivia's daughter, wild and ambitious, hands Olivia her own out-of-wedlock baby to raise, a boy named Will'm. Meanwhile, Olivia recounts her childhood with an adored father and a mad mother in the brutally segregated Depression-era South. When the probable persecutor of Olivia's wolves sets his sights on her beloved Will'm, Olivia clarifies a decades-old mystery, unwitti
And when she does, she’ll ignite a conflict that will embroil an entire community–and change her own life in the most astonishing of ways.. Destined to be a classic, Sweeping Up Glass is a tough and tender novel of love, race, and justice, and a ferocious, unflinching look at the power of family.Olivia Harker Cross owns a strip of mountain in Pope County, Kentucky, a land where whites and blacks eke out a living in separate, tattered kingdoms and where silver-faced wolves howl in the night. Her daughter’s flight to California, leaving her to raise Will’m, her
A Fresh Voice And Captivatingly Original Protagonist Olivia Harker Cross, the protagonist and narrator in Carolyn Wall's captivating "Sweeping Up Glass" is one of the novel's strongest selling points. It's been a good while since I have been so wrapped up in the complexities of a fictional character that I have to heartily recommend this terrific and surprising new book. Admirable, stubborn, heroic, and infuriating--Olivia's fresh, . "A Classic in it's own right" according to Bonnye Reed Fry. This s a wonderful southern family saga, set in the 1920's, 19A Classic in it's own right This s a wonderful southern family saga, set in the 1920's, 1930's, 19A Classic in it's own right Bonnye Reed Fry This s a wonderful southern family saga, set in the 1920's, 1930's, 1940's. Carolyn Wall has done an excellent job with this novel, taking you, heart and soul, to hard scrabble hill country Kentucky before, during and after the depression. We follow Olivia Harker Cross first person from the time she is small child who adores her father and does not miss her institutionalized mothe. 0's. Carolyn Wall has done an excellent job with this novel, taking you, heart and soul, to hard scrabble hill country Kentucky before, during and after the depression. We follow Olivia Harker Cross first person from the time she is small child who adores her father and does not miss her institutionalized mothe. 0's, 19A Classic in it's own right Bonnye Reed Fry This s a wonderful southern family saga, set in the 1920's, 1930's, 1940's. Carolyn Wall has done an excellent job with this novel, taking you, heart and soul, to hard scrabble hill country Kentucky before, during and after the depression. We follow Olivia Harker Cross first person from the time she is small child who adores her father and does not miss her institutionalized mothe. 0's. Carolyn Wall has done an excellent job with this novel, taking you, heart and soul, to hard scrabble hill country Kentucky before, during and after the depression. We follow Olivia Harker Cross first person from the time she is small child who adores her father and does not miss her institutionalized mothe. A really good page-turner Kathy O'Gorman I thought this novel started out a bit slow during the first two or three chapters, but then it became a wild ride I could not put down. I sat up really late to finish the book. It is about a woman's life,Olivia Harker Cross, who is dealing with her mentally ill mother and raising her grandson William. In addition to this, she runs the general store, and deals with a mysterious an