{"id":92,"date":"2023-11-11T18:11:41","date_gmt":"2023-11-11T18:11:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ellenhopkinsbooks.com\/?page_id=92"},"modified":"2023-11-16T23:15:13","modified_gmt":"2023-11-16T23:15:13","slug":"glass","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ellenhopkinsbooks.com\/?page_id=92","title":{"rendered":"GLASS"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"ABOUT THE BOOK<\/span><\/h3>\n

Identical tackles perhaps the most difficult subject matter of all. It is about identical twins whose father is sexually abusing one of them.<\/p>\n

I chose this subject matter because the issue touched the lives of three of my friends. Today, they are successful, beautiful women who you would never believe this might have happened to. I want readers to know it is possible to find a way beyond this terrible place, into a brighter future.<\/p>\n

\n

BOOK EXCERPT<\/span><\/h3>\n
\n
YOU KNOW MY STORY<\/h5>\n
\n

Mirror Mirror<\/p>\n

When I look into a<\/p>\n

Life
\nwas radical
\nright after I met
\nthe monster.
\nLater, life
\nbecame<\/p>\n

harder,
\ncomplicated.
\nUltimately,
\na living
\nhell,
\nlike swimming
\nagainst a riptide,
\nwalking
\nthe wrong
\ndirection in the fast
\nlane of the freeway,
\nwaking
\nfrom sweetest
\ndreams to find yourself
\nin the middle of a
\nnightmare.
\n<\/p><\/div><\/div>\n


\nDon\u2019t you? All about
\nmy dive
\ninto the lair of the monster
\ndrug some people call crank.
\nCrystal. Tina. Ice.
\nHow a summer visit
\nto my dad sent me
\ninto
\nthe arms of a boy \u2014 a
\nhot-bodied hunk, my
\nvery first love, who led
\nme down the path to
\ninsanity.
\nHow I came home
\nno longer
\nKristina Georgia
\nSnow, gifted high
\nschool junior, total
\ndweeb, and
\nperfect
\ndaughter, but
\ninstead a stranger
\nwho called herself Bree.\n

How, no matter
\nhow hard
\nKristina
\nfought her, Bree
\nwas stronger, brighter,
\nbetter equipped to deal
\nwith a world where
\neverythingmoved at light
\nspeed, everyone mired
\nin ego. Where \u201ceveryday\u201d
\nbecame
\nanother word
\nfor making love with
\nthe monster.<\/p><\/div><\/div>\n

REVIEW FOR GLASS<\/span><\/h3>\n
\n
REVIEW FROM PUBLISHERS WEEKLY:<\/h5>\n

Hopkins\u2019s hard-hitting free-verse novel, a sequel, picks up where Crankleft off. Kristina now lives in her mother\u2019s Reno home with her baby, but constantly dreams of \u201cgetting\/ high. Strung. Getting\/ out of this deep well\/ of monotony I\u2019m\/ slowly drowning in.\u201d When her former connection turns her on to \u201cglass\u201d: \u201cMexican meth, as\/ good as it comes. maybe 90 percent pure,\u201d Kristina quickly loses control again. She gets kicked out of her house after her baby gets hurt on her watch, starts dealing for the Mexican Mafia (\u201cNo problem. I\u2019ll play straight\/ with them. Cash and carry\u201d) and eventually even robs her mother\u2019s house with her equally addicted boyfriend. The author expertly relays both plot points and drug facts through verse, painting Kristina\u2019s self-narrated self-destruction through clean verses (\u201cMy face is hollow-\/cheeked, spiced with sores\u201d). She again experiments with form, sometimes writing two parallel poems that can be read together or separately (sometimes these experiments seem a bit cloying, as in \u201cSanta Is Coming,\u201d a concrete poem in the shape of a Christmas tree). But in the end, readers will be amazed at how quickly they work their way through this thick book-and by how much they learn about crystal meth and the toll it takes, both on addicts and their families. Ages 14-up. (Aug.)<\/p>\n

\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

ABOUT THE BOOK Identical tackles perhaps the most difficult subject matter of all. It is about identical twins whose father is sexually abusing one of them. I chose this subject matter because the issue touched the lives of three of my friends. Today, they are successful, beautiful women who you would never believe this might have happened to. I want readers to know it is possible to find a way beyond this terrible place, into a brighter future. BOOK EXCERPT YOU KNOW MY STORY REVIEW FOR GLASS REVIEW FROM PUBLISHERS WEEKLY: Hopkins\u2019s hard-hitting free-verse novel, a sequel, picks up where Crankleft off. Kristina now lives in her mother\u2019s Reno home with her baby, but constantly dreams of \u201cgetting\/ high. Strung. Getting\/ out of this deep well\/ of monotony I\u2019m\/ slowly drowning in.\u201d When her former connection turns her on to \u201cglass\u201d: \u201cMexican meth, as\/ good as it comes. maybe 90 percent pure,\u201d Kristina quickly loses control again. She gets kicked out of her house after her baby gets hurt on her watch, starts dealing for the Mexican Mafia (\u201cNo problem. I\u2019ll play straight\/ with them. Cash and carry\u201d) and eventually even robs her mother\u2019s house with her equally addicted boyfriend. The author expertly relays both plot points and drug facts through verse, painting Kristina\u2019s self-narrated self-destruction through clean verses (\u201cMy face is hollow-\/cheeked, spiced with sores\u201d). She again experiments with form, sometimes writing two parallel poems that can be read together or separately (sometimes these experiments seem a bit cloying, as in \u201cSanta Is Coming,\u201d a concrete poem in the shape of a Christmas tree). But in the end, readers will be amazed at how quickly they work their way through this thick book-and by how much they learn about crystal meth and the toll it takes, both on addicts and their families. Ages 14-up. (Aug.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-92","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellenhopkinsbooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/92","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellenhopkinsbooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellenhopkinsbooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellenhopkinsbooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellenhopkinsbooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=92"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/ellenhopkinsbooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/92\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":328,"href":"https:\/\/ellenhopkinsbooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/92\/revisions\/328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellenhopkinsbooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=92"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}