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Sweeping Up Glass
Sweeping Up Glass | Carolyn D. Wall
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Living behind Harker's Grocery with a young boy named Will'm in 1938 Kentucky, Olivia is stunned when members of the exclusive Hunt Club suddenly turn their sights on the two of them, a dangerous situation complicated by the return of Will'm's mother and the exposure of the Rowe Street community's horrifying secrets. Reprint.
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Addison_Reads
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I found this book by accident on Overdrive.

Set in rural Kentucky during segregation, Olivia tells her story of growing up poor with a mentally unstable Mama, raising her grandson, and uncovering secrets her Pap tried to hide from her.

I enjoyed this. It felt like talking to my grandma. Older people in the South have their own language, and Wall captured that with lines like "While I love the boy more than life, Ida's a hole in another sock."

Addison_Reads # ReadingUSA2019 @Librarybelle 16/50 States 5y
Librarybelle Sounds like it would be a good read! 5y
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Lcsmcat
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A slow quiet start - I thought it was going to be a book about living through the depression- that heated up so much I broke my own rule of audiobooks for commuting or exercising only and stayed up late to finish it.

Kaye Loved this book 6y
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Lcsmcat
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My current #audiocommute. I‘m not sure yet where this is going.

Kaye Really liked this book, although I read the print version. 6y
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Lcsmcat
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Is it a quote if it‘s the title? #glass #quotsymay18 @TK-421

TK-421 Sure, why not? 😂 6y
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Alena
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What a great way to spend a day with a book. The comparisons to To Kill a Mockingbird are apt, and though I didn't fall in love with Olivia to quite that extent, she's still a dependable and engaging narrator. Race relations, poverty, mountain life, violence all come together especially as the book picks ups momentum in he second half.

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Alena
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Another dysfunctional mother-daughter duo.

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VeryLazyDaisy
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This is the best book I've read in over a year! I recommend it to anyone who likes To Kill a Mockingbird. It's much more intense, and complicated, but has a similar tone.