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Sweeping Up Glass

by Carolyn Wall
Lorna Raver
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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. But someone is killing the wolves of Big Foley Mountain–and Olivia is beginning to realize how much of her own bitter history she’s never understood: Her mother’s madness, building toward a fiery crescendo. Her daughter’s flight to California, leaving her to raise Will’m, her beloved grandson. And most of all, her town’s fear, for Olivia has real and dangerous enemies.
Now this proud, lonely woman will face her mother and daughter, her neighbors and the wolf hunters of Big Foley Mountain. 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.

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  • Release date

    August 4, 2009

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9781415963210
      • File size: 302958 KB
      • Duration: 10:31:09

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      A fresh, lyrical narration by Lorna Raver enlivens this story of Depression-era Big Foley Mountain, Kentucky. Segregation reigns in this backwater country, where whites and blacks alike eke out a bare subsistence living. The mystery of the cruel wolf hunters, as well as another decades-old mystery, ignites a conflict that embroils the entire community. Wall's imaginative prose becomes poetry in Raver's melodic delivery. Her gentle Southern twang tones down the harsh injustices experienced by Olivia's family and friends Junk and Love Alice, and even gives dimension to the novel's more unsavory characters. Her deft portrayal of Olivia's mother, Ida, starkly depicts her questionable sanity. Raver delivers the novel's suspenseful revelations and illuminates its theme of emotional survival amid tough circumstances. A.W. (c) AudioFile 2009, Portland, Maine

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