Author Talk with Amy Wight Chapman: "Just Like Glass, A Family Memoir"

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Join the Auburn Public Library for an Author Talk with Amy Wight Chapman discussing her book Just Like Glass: A Family Memoir."

Just Like Glass" is the story of one transformative year in the life of the author’s four older siblings and their mother, Ruth. In 1958, just as the school year is ending, Ruth’s husband, Bill, is felled by a fatal heart attack. Not knowing what else to do, she loads her grief-stricken children, ages eight to fourteen, into the station wagon with the family dog and drives north to spend the summer at their lakeside camp in western Maine. 

This is the story of one year in the life of that family, and a tribute to both of her parents—the widowed mother who raised her to be intrepid and capable, and the father whose legacy was to remain a vital and immediate part of the family he left behind.