As thoughts turn to summer reading options, books like The Sound of Glass by Karen White readily come to mind – more than a “beach read” and yet still not too demanding of the reader, her novels are entertaining and character driven, often filled with romance and mystery.
The Sound of Glass is complex
and multi-generational, with flashbacks throughout, particularly to a mysterious
plane crash from 1955. Set mostly in South Carolina, it begins as a young widow,
Merritt Heyward, arrives after inheriting her husband’s family home. She moved
from Maine to start a new life and is soon surprised by the arrival of her 10
year-old half-brother, Owen (call me Rocky), accompanied by his ill and also widowed
mother, Loralee. My favorite part of this novel was the “Journal
of Truths” which Loralee kept to instruct her much-loved son through sayings
and folk wisdom.
Karen White wove a theme of abusive relationships throughout
this story, yet it is ultimately uplifting. Just like the wind chimes shown on
the beautiful cover of The Sound of Glass, she
showed that although shaped by events and turbulent forces, women are strong,
stronger than you think.
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