Glow

In the autumn of 1941, Amelia J. McGee, a young woman of Cherokee and Scotch-Irish descent, hastily puts her young daughter, Ella, on a bus bound for Georgia-alone, in the middle of the night. What seems like neglect is an act of desperation. Ella’s father is one of hundreds of African-Americans jailed for resisting the draft, and his family has been threatened with violence. Somewhere between Washington, D.C. and Hopewell, Georgia, Ella is left for dead on the side of the road. She awakens in the home of a former slave and her partner, deep in the Georgia mountains. Stories unfurl, revealing ties that bind all of these characters together in a family tree that reaches back to frontier days. Combining epic themes-innocence, experience, human frailty, mother-love-with a distinct setting, rich historical context, irresistible characters, and authentic voices, Glow transports us from the brink of World War II back through the decades to 1836 and a world of ghosts both real and imagined.