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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."

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.

My current #audiocommute. I‘m not sure yet where this is going.

Is it a quote if it‘s the title? #glass #quotsymay18 @TK-421

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.

Another dysfunctional mother-daughter duo.

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.