Glass

“Typically, memoir gives us the emotional high points, but Savage’s Edna inverts that: She writes loneliness and tedium, the bits and pieces that are hard to look at, or that typically wind up on the cutting room floor.” —The Los Angeles Times “A dazzling, graceful novel. . . . Glass gives us both a life story told well and tantalizingly in unspooled snippets, and a thoughtful rumination on the nature of late-life reflection itself.” —The Star Tribune “Glass is a fantastic experiment in perspective and an oddly memorable book.” —January Magazine “Sam Savage creates some of the most original, unforgettable characters in contemporary fiction.” —Poets & Writers “Introspection is at the heart of this new novel from Savage, which effectively defines that jewel of a word, velleity (the lowest level of compulsion to act, a slight impulse to do something).” —Library Journal, starred review “Savage’s decision to use the point of view of an unreliable narrator will capture the attention of readers of literary fiction. The wry, bizarre humor will keep it.” —Booklist “Evocative, poetic, and compelling.” —New York Journal of Books “Glass transforms through Edna’s pathology (and Savage’s relentless vision) into a deeply felt exploration of memory, of what it means to outlive the sources of one’s suffering.” —BookPage “[Glass is] Sam Savage’s examination of the truth of memory, the effects of self-imposed solitude, and the churning verbal mechanics of writer’s mind.” —Shelf Awareness ” —New York Journal of Books “An original and compelling book. Highly recommended” —Library Journal (starred review) “Readers are ultimately rewarded with a nearly voyeuristic pleasure, watching as this human life unfolds, reluctantly, in all its tragic splendor.” —BookPage