Glimmer is the stunning portrayal of a young woman's nervous breakdown and her courageous journey to recovery. It is the story of Sage Taylor, who, faced with the intense pressures of her first year in college, withdraws from the world, barricading herself in her dorm room while she tells her family she is excelling both socially and academically. Meanwhile, alone in her room, Sage struggles to define her identity in the midst of racial and sexual emblems, a family with a legacy of loyalty and secrecy, and her own deepest fears. As confusion gives way to madness, Sage's family is drawn to her side and her need to reconstruct the family's history brings past and present together in the culmination of a triumphant search for self. "[A] wonderfully crafted novel... Glimmer illustrates how our obsession and longing may escalate to paranoia without those closest to us being even mildly aware of our condition...Annie Waters depicts her heroine's descent into madness with such believability that the reader may even wonder whether the novel is a fictionalized version of a real-life experience The Washington Past "You'll tear chrough this lonely but fast-paced novel (which reminds us of Catcher in the Rye), laughing at Sages often-sarcastic voice and then oncrying as she describes her fatherless life." Seventeen

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