Clip from "Books of 2014: John Wilson takes us from beetles to the Desert Fathers,"
First Things, March 2015 (print), pp. 45-48--
Marly Youmans is a novelist and poet out of sync with the times but in tune with the ages. Glimmerglass is set in the present in a fictional village patterned on Cooperstown. It's a sweetly uncanny mix of the quotidian and the magical, a portrait of the artist (and this is such a refreshing change) as a middle-aged woman recovering her vocation. There's a very odd house, too, with Gothic chambers, and a family secret, and much more.
When First Things takes notice, you know that you have joined the elite. Brava!
ReplyDeleteI don't really understand how such things work... I have managed to be in the NYTBR and the Washington Post without every putting a dent in my "best-kept secret" sort of status. By now, perhaps I'm like Mr. Bennett and would be discommoded by a change in condition! But it's always nice to think that new readers may be bumping into your books via a new source...
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