T. Greenwood - This Glittering World

Outstanding Praise for the Novels of T. Greenwood
This Glittering World

This Glittering World is swift, stark, calamitous. Her characters, their backs against the wall, confront those difficult moments that will define them and Greenwood paints these troubled lives with attention, compassion and hope. As this novel about family, friendship, and allegiance swirls towards its tumultuous climax, This Glittering World asks us how it is that people sometimes choose to turn toward redemption, and sometimes choose its oppositehow it is, finally, that we become the people we become.

Jerry Gabriel, author of Drowned Boy and winner of the
Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction

Undressing the Moon

This beautiful story, eloquently told, demands attention.

Library Journal (starred review)

Greenwood has skillfully managed to create a novel with unforgettable characters, finely honed descriptions, and beautiful imagery.

Book Street USA

A lyrical, delicately affecting tale.

Publishers Weekly

Rarely has a writer rendered such highly charged topics to so wrenching, yet so beautifully understated, an effect. T. Greenwood takes on risky subject matter, handling her volatile topics with admirable restraint. Ultimately more about life than death, Undressing the Moon beautifully elucidates the human capacity to maintain grace under unrelenting fire.

The Los Angeles Times

The Hungry Season

This compelling study of a family in need of rescue is very effective, owing to Greenwoods eloquent, exquisite word artistry and her knack for developing subtle, suspenseful scenes. Greenwoods sensitive and gripping examination of a family in crisis is real, complex, and anything but formulaic.

Library Journal (starred review)

A deeply psychological read.

Publishers Weekly

Can there be life after tragedy? How do you live with the loss of a child, let alone the separation emotionally from all your loved ones? T. Greenwood with beautiful prose poses this question while delving into the psyches of a successful man, his wife, and his son. This is a wonderful story, engaging from the beginning that gets better with every chapter.

The Washington Times

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Two Rivers

From the moment the train derails in the town of Two Rivers, I was hooked. Who is this mysterious young stranger named Maggie, and what is she running from? In Two Rivers, T. Greenwood weaves a haunting story in which the sins of the past threaten to destroy the fragile equilibrium of the present. Ripe with surprising twists and heart-breakingly real characters, Two Rivers is a remarkable and complex look at race and forgiveness in smalltown America.

Michelle Richmond, New York Times bestselling author of
The Year of Fog and No One You Know

Two Rivers is a convergence of tales, a reminder that the past never washes away, and yet, in T. Greenwoods delicate handling of time gone and time to come, love and forgiveness wait on the other side of what life does to us and what we do to it. This novel is a sensitive and suspenseful portrayal of family and the ties that bind.

Lee Martin, author ofThe Bright ForeverandRiver of Heaven

The premise of Two Rivers is alluring: the very morning a deadly train derailment upsets the balance of a sleepy Vermont town, a mysterious girl shows up on Harper Montgomerys doorstep, forcing him to dredge up a lifetime of memoriesfrom his blissful, indelible childhood to his lonely, contemporary existence. Most of all, he must look long and hard at that terrible night twelve years ago, when everything he held dear was taken from him, and he, in turn, took back. T. Greenwoods novel is full of love, betrayal, lost hopes, and a burning question: is it ever too late to find redemption?

Miranda Beverly-Whittemore, author of The Effects of Light and the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize-winning Set Me Free

Greenwood is a writer of subtle strength, evoking small-town life beautifully while spreading out the map of Harpers life, finding light in the darkest of stories.

Publishers Weekly

T. Greenwoods writing shimmers and sings as she braids together past, present, and the events of one desperate day. I ached for Harper in all of his longing, guilt, grief, and vast, abiding love, and I rejoiced at his final, hard-won shot at redemption.

Marisa de los Santos, New York Times bestselling author of Belong to Me and Love Walked In

Two Rivers is a stark, haunting story of redemption and salvation. T. Greenwood portrays a world of beauty and peace that, once disturbed, reverberates with searing pain and inescapable consequences; this is a story of a man who struggles with the deepest, darkest parts of his soul, and is able to fight his way to the surface to breathe again. But alsomaybe more soit is the story of a man who learns the true meaning of family: When I am with you, I am home. A memorable, powerful work.

Garth Stein,New York Timesbestselling author ofThe Art of Racing in the Rain

A complex tale of guilt, remorse, revenge, and forgiveness Convincing Interesting

Library Journal

In the tradition of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and To Kill a Mockingbird, T. Greenwoods Two Rivers is a wonderfully distinctive American novel, abounding with memorable characters, unusual lore and history, dark family secrets, and love of life. Two Rivers is the story that people want to read: the one they have never read before.

Howard Frank Mosher, author of Walking to Gatlinburg

Two Rivers is a dark and lovely elegy, filled with heartbreak that turns itself into hope and forgiveness. I felt so moved by this luminous novel.

Luanne Rice, New York Times bestselling author

Two Rivers is reminiscent of Thornton Wilder, with its quiet New England town shadowed by tragedy, and of Sherwood Anderson, with its sense of desperate loneliness and regret. Its to Greenwoods credit that she answers her novels mysteries in ways that are believable, that make you feel the sadness that informs her characters lives.

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