Destined to be a classic, Sweeping Up Glass is a tough and tender novel of love, race, and justice, and a ferocious, unflinching look at the power of family.

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 MountainÐand Olivia is beginning to realize how much of her own bitter history sheÕs never understood: Her motherÕs madness, building toward a fiery crescendo. Her daughterÕs flight to California, leaving her to raise WillÕm, her beloved grandson. And most of all, her townÕs fear, for Olivia has real and dangerous enemies.

Now this proud, lonely woman will face her mother and daughter, her neighbors and the wolf hunters of Big Foley Mountain. And when she does, sheÕll ignite a conflict that will embroil an entire communityÐand change her own life in the most astonishing of ways.