Water in a Broken Glass
African American sculptor Tonya has come a long way from her parents' cramped basement where she tried to make sense of her feelings while working with only three modeling tools and one bag of clay per month. She now has a major one-woman show coming up, having worked for 10 years in a sculptor's paradise, a bright third-floor studio only 20 minutes from her Baltimore home. She's also in love at last, with Malcolm, a handsome CPA, and both sets of parents have met and are ready for grandbabies. Then memories of the high-school fascination/obsession she had for Meyoki, a tall, dark (though not as dark as Tonya) transfer student, resurface when she walks into a bookstore and meets a tall, very dark woman who mesmerizes her, eventually changing the direction of her life. Rose's meditative insights into family closeness and loyalty and her exquisite sense of detail make this a promising debut and a strikingly unusual romance.Whitney ScottCopyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved