Glass Asylum - Tapa blanda

Madelyn decides her life requires a rewrite. Another child has died. Madelyn witnessed (and failed to prevent) the accidental death of a neighbors little girl, a trauma that revives the pain of losing her own child ten years earlier. At the same time, a long-term love affair is unraveling. She flees into the land of language, but she finds writing about her own experiences too difficult. Instead, she observes neighbors through her window and urges their stories to come inside. Hidden behind the glass, she can safely shuffle words, time, and truth, even spilling secrets that dont belong to her. After false starts and dead ends, a few stories find completion. Writing, watching and hiding threaten to turn her into a recluse, until she is forced out into the world by an unintentional act of heroism and by acceptance into a writing workshop. New love takes the form of a female mentor and a talented, enigmatic ex-con, both of them artistic in ways Madelyn longs to be but, ultimately, fears.