Season of Harvest announces The Glass House by William E. Thompson.  In this compelling memoir of his mother’s struggle with cancer, the author is forced to shed the robes of academic sociology as his mother takes his hand and asks him to walk with her on the wobbly bridge between life and death.

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The Glass House

Life sustaining tubes ran into and out of my mother’s frail body.  I wanted and needed to hug her, to place both arms around her neck, pull her to me and feel her heart next to mine.  The tubes and the port kept her alive, but they were barriers to living.  I pulled a chair up to the bed and held her weak, age-spotted hand in mine.  I was not prepared for the story that my mother told.  She had visited another world—a sanctuary where she lived in a huge glass house on an expansive horse ranch, wore high-heeled shoes, and danced once again.  The daughter of an Oklahoma Territory dirt farmer, it is fitting that her other world included cattle round-ups, tornadoes, floods, and gunfights with outlaws as she surrounded herself with her loved ones transforming her death and dying into a lesson about life.  As my mother’s story unfolded, it was apparent that things would never be the same—for her, or for me.

Reviewers Comments

“. . . a unique manuscript.  The Glass house is thought provoking, informative, personal, and compelling . . . a graceful balance of suspense, academic wisdom, common sense, and humanistic sensibility.  Every parent and child needs to read it; that includes everyone.”  Fred Tarpley, author of Jefferson:  Riverport to the Southwest, 1001 Texas Place Names, Place Names of Northeast Texas, From Blinky to Bluejohn:  A Word Atlas of Northeast Texas, Jefferson:  East Texas Metropolis.
 

“I was reading about the author and his mother, when I realized the book could have been written about my mother and me.  This work speaks to everybody, especially the baby boomers who have experienced, are dealing with, or soon will face the death of one or both parents.”  Jim Ainsworth, author of In the Rivers’ Flow and Rivers Crossing.

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