Author of
Blue Glass
A New York Times Notable Book
of the Year
Praise for Blue Glass
“LOVELY AND UNUSUAL…Of all the novel’s virtues, this is perhaps the rarest: an evenhanded understanding that illuminates both the particularity of the relationship and the universality of mother-and-daughter conflicts.”
—Jane Smiley, The New York Times Book Review
“THE AUTHOR DOES AN OUTSTANDING JOB of keeping the reader in suspense as to how it will all turn out; A good look at the quiet–and not-so-quiet–rebelliousness felt by every teenager. Recommended for all fiction collections, and possibly some older YA collections.”
— Library Journal
“AN UNPRETENTIOUS BUT ACCOMPLISHED FIRST NOVEL about the bittersweet relationship between a mother and a daughter… one of those quietly compelling stories that touches the heart.”
“THIS STRONG, THOUGHTFUL FIRST NOVEL about a young girl and her changing relationship with her parents develops with quiet momentum beneath its cool, unadorned surface.”
— Publisher’s Weekly
“Sandra Tyler is a pure writer. Her sentences are always just right. She creates characters that are rank with all our excesses, our timidities, our tendernesses… Tyler writes about women, women who have children who don’t want to stay by their sides. She understands the female journey is outward at a price of losing home and homeward at a price of losing the world.”
— Anne Roiphe, The East Hampton Star
Sandra Tyler 