Meet the characters from Breaking Glass, Part One
JEREMY GLASS
Breaking Glass is a
ghost story. But it is also a psychological drama—the tale a one boy’s
unraveling.
The main character and narrator from BREAKING GLASS, is Jeremy
Glass, a young man in his senior year of high school. On the surface Jeremy seems
like a regular guy. A super-smart honors student, slightly nerdy history geek,
but also a track star in his town of Riverton, New York, Jeremy appears to be
headed for a full athletic and academic scholarship to a great college.
That’s how it looks from the outside. But inside, Jeremy is
a tormented soul, still reeling from a terrible tragedy from his past and
desperately in love with a girl who doesn’t want him. He clings to the hope
that Susannah will wake up one day and realize that Jeremy’s best friend Ryan
is no good for her— that he, Jeremy, is her soul-mate—the one who has
worshipped her from afar all through high school.
But unbeknownst to anyone, even his closest friends, Jeremy
drinks to outrun the nightmares and memories that haunt him. He fully believes
he can control his dark vice—until the night Susannah disappears and all hell
breaks loose.
Here is an excerpt to give you a feel for Jeremy:
Heart pounding, I gulp in air and think of
my water bottle, nestled in the glove compartment of my car. I can feel my lips
pressed to its cool rim, imagining the warmth of its contents sliding down the
back of my throat.
But no. I have to stay sharp. I’m sensible,
I tell myself. Sensible Jeremy Glass.
Besides, there’s no time. Susannah emerges
from the parking lot mist carrying a single red rose. A circuit flips on inside
me; a familiar volt of current sizzles through my core like heat lightning. I
stuff the phone in my pocket and try to position myself to block Ryan from
view. My palms are slick. At first, I identify the heaviness behind my eyeballs
as guilt. Only as Susannah pushes through the glass doors, droplets beaded on
her hair like diamond chips, do I recognize the cold hollow thing that claws up
into my throat for what it really is.
Shame.
Panic cramps my insides. The silver water
bottle beckons.
BREAKING GLASS from Spencer Hill Press, July 2013
by Lisa Amowitz
On the night
seventeen-year-old Jeremy Glass winds up in the hospital with a broken leg and
a blood alcohol level well above the legal limit, his secret crush, Susannah,
disappears. When he begins receiving messages from her from beyond the grave,
he’s not sure whether they’re real or if he’s losing his grip on reality. Clue
by clue, he gets closer to unraveling the mystery, and soon realizes he must
discover the truth or become the next victim himself.
ISBN: 978-1937053383
Author bio:
Lisa
Amowitz was born in Queens and raised in the wilds of Long Island, New York
where she climbed trees, thought small creatures lived under rocks and studied
ant hills. And drew. A lot.
When
she hit her teens, she realized that Long Island was too small for her and she
needed to escape. So she went to college in Pittsburgh. Go figure.
On
leaving college, Lisa became a graphic designer living in New York City. She
eventually married her husband of a zillion years, had two lovely children, and
was swept away to a fairy tale life in the Bronx, where, unbelievably there are
more trees and wilderness than her hometown. She can see the Hudson River from
her kitchen window.
Lisa
has been a professor of Graphic Design at her beloved Bronx Community College
where she has been tormenting and cajoling students for nearly seventeen years.
She started writing eight years ago because she wanted something to illustrate,
but somehow, instead ended up writing YA. Probably because her mind is too dark
and twisted for small children.
BREAKING
GLASS which will be released in July, 2013 from Spencer Hill Press, is her
first published work. VISION, the first of the Finder series will be released
in 2014, along with an unnamed sequel in the following year. LIFE AND BETH will
also be released in the near future, along with graphic novel style art.
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1 comment:
Breaking Glass sounds like a fantastic read! I have added it to my TBR list!
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