Destined to be a vintage, Sweeping Up Glass is a difficult and gentle novel of affection, race, and justice, and a ferocious, unflinching examine the facility of family.
Olivia Harker go owns a strip of mountain in Pope County, Kentucky, a land the place whites and blacks eke out a residing in separate, tattered kingdoms and the place silver-faced wolves howl within the evening. yet somebody is killing the wolves of huge Foley Mountain–and Olivia is starting to become aware of how a lot of her personal sour historical past she’s by no means understood: Her mother’s insanity, development towards a fiery crescendo. Her daughter’s flight to California, leaving her to elevate Will’m, her cherished grandson. And such a lot of all, her town’s worry, for Olivia has genuine and unsafe enemies.
Now this proud, lonely girl will face her mom and daughter, her associates and the wolf hunters of huge Foley Mountain. And while she does, she’ll ignite a clash that might embroil a whole community–and switch her personal existence within the so much unbelievable of the way.
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Junk is helping. He catches carry of the iron ring within the ground and increases the door. lower than is the tunnel Pap as soon as dug. Smells of mildew, and rot, and rotting earth rush out. Longfeet and the Reverend are supporting parents off the bus and into the shed the place they cry out and cringe, and that i run for the lantern at the porch. but if the again door opens and Will’m comes out conserving the cub, I’m close to tears, close to the top. i've got stored not anything. Junk appears on the slush. “Tracks lead correct to us. ” “I’ma shut the door, conceal it over,” Longfeet says. “Miss Livvy correct. I gon’ cross through the barn, that previous cabin, force ’round and ’round. whilst I see ’em comin’, I lead ’em down the line. perhaps they keep on with me, probably no longer. yet you were given to rush. ” The Reverend holds his daughter in his palms as she pleads, “Longfeet, in the event that they meet up with you—” “Don’t you worry,” Longfeet tells his spouse. “All correct, then,” Junk says. “Reverend, you are taking this lantern and paved the way down. Love Alice and that i will come final with pass over Livvy. ” the place are the marshals? one after the other, the Reverend and his flock disappear into the outlet. around the backyard, Junk and that i drop into the muddy grave we all started digging 3 days in the past. Junk has the shovel. I scrabble with my fingers. In a number of extra mins it’ll be our flip to persist with the others throughout the seize door. i ponder, now, if Pap dug it now not rather a lot for comfort, yet in case he had to escape from Phelps. Then Junk moves anything together with his shovel. He will get down on his knees within the muck, works his palms. It’s the 1st time I’ve ever heard Junk swear. With a sucking sound, a tin field pulls free, and he passes it to me. Longfeet shouts, “You-all bought to rush! I acquired to maneuver this bus! ” We scramble from the outlet. I take Will’m’s hand. in the course of the iciness timber to the west I see the road. a protracted line of darkish automobiles gradual to make the flip. Into the shed, then 3 steps, 4, into the abdominal of the earth. Six, seven. My middle bangs in my throat, and that i think I can’t breathe. Will’m is in the back of me. With the 9th step, i'm status at the plywood ground, yet it’s gentle and splintered, and water rises. The braces have rotted, and the partitions are natural dust. There’s loads of moaning and a few in entrance people cry out. I test to not take into consideration the soil overhead, the way it crawls with vermin and seals us in. The Reverend as soon as baptized me within the identify of this earth. I’m relying on it to avoid wasting us now. Even within the muck I cross the be aware to sit. If we don’t, many will quickly faint, and we must never make a legitimate. Will’m and that i sit down, and leave out Wellette, subsequent to me, folds herself into the slop. i do know such a lot of outdated ft and legs and knees are cramping, and that i ask yourself how the kids are so quiet. I ship alongside observe, too, that the opposite finish is simply plywood and if worse involves worse they could push via into our cellar. What comes again alongside the road isn't really spoken. They’ll die right here ahead of they’ll hold in Phelps’ barn. Junk and Love Alice scramble down the stairs. Longfeet closes the door and stacks issues to hide our hiding position. We pay attention the bus rumble and fade away, locking us in with mold and our prayers.