“The Night Garden of My Mother is an emotive memoir about the entwined nature of generational woundedness and love.”

—KRISTINE MORRIS (Foreword Reviews, September / October 2024)

“For many first novelists, it is precisely the desire to settle scores, or to write through anger toward acceptance, that provides the energy for the work. Sometimes what we respond to in a first novel is the eloquence of that anger. Sandra Tyler’s gift is rarer…Blue Glass is a Fine Book.”

—Jane Smiley, The New York Times Book RevieW

“This is a rich and importantly won first novel, a mother-and-daughter story parallel in power and insight to Theodore Weesner’s father-and-son classic, The Car Thief.”

— DeWitt Henry, Ploughshares Literary Journal

“This writing is careful, even graceful, dancing off, slantwise, the grief that dwells with us in our dwellings…Anybody that can curl up in a chair and read past dusk should find this book and take it home. Anybody who has a child, who has a parent, who has taken turns in their life that might have been mistakes, that disguise the wished for, the abandoned, the great fear of the dark, should take this book home and enjoy it.”

– Anne Roiphe, The East Hampton Star

“Sandra Tyler’s moody second novel takes place a year after the title character is killed while crossing the railroad tracks in a small coastal town in Massachusetts… Ms. Tyler is best at revealing the habitual role playing and fault lines beneath the everyday banter.”

— Scott Veal, The New York Times

“In this emotionally acute novel, Tyler questions whether family members ever truly know one another. Tyler’s drama, loaded with screenplay-friendly dialogue, proceeds smartly and stingingly.”

— Publisher’s Weekly