LaRC books-- Glass house
Glass house : a novel / by Christine Wiltz. Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, 1994. PS 3573 .I4784 G57 1994 LACOLL There are also copies in the main Howard-Tilton stacks and Vorhoff Library (Special Collections); call number varies slightly in different locations, so please check the library catalog. It's also available from amazon.com and elsewhere in paperback, hardcover, and electronic editions. This serious novel of the 1990s is important as an emotional snapshot of an earlier era in race relations in New Orleans. Although poverty, gun violence, and remnants of racism continue to plague the city in the 21st century, this novel captures the painful tenacity of mid-century views surrounding an inherited long-term domestic worker and her family, and their relationship to her semi-privileged but challenged employer. The strength of Christine Wiltz's descriptive writing is her ability to portray most of the characters very sympathetically, even...