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Roswell Reads 2013: 'Sweeping Up Glass' is Chosen
The Carolyn Wall book is set in Kentucky during the Depression-era 1930s.
For the eighth year in a row, Roswell residents will read the same book, at the same time. Roswell Reads literary committee has chosen its 2013 book selection: "Sweeping Up Glass" by Carolyn Wall. The annual program has a history of choosing books set in the South, written by little known, but highly acclaimed authors, says the committee. The book description on Amazon.com says: Olivia Harker Cross owns a strip of mountain in Pope County, Kentucky, a land where whites and blacks eke out a living in separate, tattered kingdoms and where silver-faced wolves howl in the night. But someone is killing the wolves of Big Foley Mountain–and Olivia is beginning to realize how much of her own bitter history she’s never understood: Her mother’s …
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