Charles Lang is a renowned scientist whose wife Julie and daughter Jess vanished mysteriously several years ago. Yet Charles remembers none of this, not even his own name. All that he has left of his identity are the accidental remnants scattered throughout the house, and the only clue Charles has regarding what happened to him is a thick cap of bandages wrapped around his head. As Charles starts to have memories of the past, memories that may or may not be his own, he realizes that only by uncovering the details of his former life will he have any hope of being reunited with Julie and Jess.
A haunting tale of love and longing, of fate and free will, of the blurring lines between fiction and reality, Glass Shatters explores the dangers of trying to reinvent oneself. With the lyricism of Nicole Krauss, the exhilarating suspense of Kazuo Ishiguro, and the Gothic sensibility of Mary Shelley, Michelle Meyers’s debut novel showcases a daring new voice in the contemporary literary landscape
The Author
Michelle Meyers is a fiction writer and playwright born and raised in Los Angeles. She received her Bachelor’s Degree in Literary Arts and Theatre Arts from Brown University, where she studied with Brian Evenson, Michelle’s writing has been published in theLos Angeles Times, DOGZPLOT, jmww, Grey Sparrow Journal, and Juked, and her flash fiction was selected for the Wigleaf Top 50 (Very) Short Fictions of 2014. Her plays have been developed and/or produced in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, the Berkshires, and elsewhere. Michelle is currently a 2015 PEN Center Emerging Voices Fellow in Fiction and is heading to the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa this fall to begin her MFA in Creative Writing. Glass Shatters is her first novel.
My Thoughts
This book started a bit slow to me at first. After a few chapters it took off. Telling the story of a man who wakes up and does not recognize his surroundings at all. After awhile memories start coming back, but are they actually his memories? Reading the book will give you those answers.As the story goes on that is the premise, as Charles delves deeper into his memories and with the help of coworkers he finally finds the answers he is looking for. Glass Shatters is definitely one of those novels that can be categorized as a mystery/ sci fi/ thriller. I don't think it fits into exclusively into any of those genres, kind of all mixed into the three genres. I found the story to be very interesting, plausible and believable what with the advances in science, anything is possible.
I received a copy of the book to read from BookSparks for my honest thoughts.
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