Filled with warmth and tender insights, Heart of Glass follows the unforgettable Fairwyn March from young adulthood through midlife during the final decades of the nineteenth century.
A free-spirited beauty whose life brims with mountain lore and dulcimer music, Fairwyn disastrously loses her heart to the ambitions of a man who wants only to change her. Determined to be everything her husband wants, she gives up the core of herself. Then one day, she discovers a secret that shatters her world.
Sending herself into self-imposed exile, Fairwyn allows her family to believe her dead. Her journey takes her across the continent–and into the landscape of her heart. In the most unlikely of places–California’s decaying Mission San Juan Capistrano–she meets another exile in need of healing. Bound together in tender friendship, they also discover hope in God’s promise of love without condition. A spellbinding journey into the human heart.
From the Trade Paperback edition.
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Summary
Overall Anyone plagued with regrets? Realizing too late that you've made a choice with wrong motives? This might just be the book for you. Set in the Appalachians during the post Civil War 1800s, Fairwyn March, a mid-twentysomething spinster, finds herself enticed into a marriage with city-bred and welleducated, Zeb Deforest. Despite her every effort to fit into the role of the wife of a college professor, she sinks into darkness and despair too late realizing that she may have never loved her husband but only used him to escape the confines and limitations of her Appalachian upbringing. A thoughtful look at a life of regrets and how our Good and Gracious God desires to bring wholeness to us even in the midst of misguided-nay, sinful choices. He alone can take our shattered Hearts of Glass and make the pieces into prisms that reflect His glory.
Violence Some description of feuding with fatal outcome.