This begins a chain of events that bring us to the present day in 2014, as Merritt Heyward inherits a family home from her late husband, Cal. As Edith’s curiosity gets the better of her, she decides to open it. While holding her young son in her arms and trying to figure out what has happened in the night sky above, she sees the leather suitcase and grabs it before returning to safety within the house. A suitcase falls from the explosion and lands directly in the middle of Edith Heyward’s backyard garden, sitting upright as if someone had merely set it down and forgotten it. One night, in the hot and humid night air surrounding 1955 Beaufort, South Carolina, a plane explodes across the sky, waking the sleeping residents and raining debris on the Lowcountry below. With careful writing, White has interwoven themes of mystery, heartache, the peace that comes with having all of the answers and finding peace with the ones you do not. Though this book is very much a love story, it isn’t necessarily a romance. I’ve mentioned in other reviews how I am not a fan of love stories, but this week, I found Karen White’s “The Sound of Glass” and it might have converted me.
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