Description
Book SynopsisThe small plains town of Ingleside, Nebraska, is populated by down-on-their-luck ranchers and new money, ghosts and seers, drugs and greed, the haves and the have-nots. In this novel, lives ripple through each other to surprising effect, though the connections fluctuate between divisive gulfs and the most intimate closeness.
Trade Review“A quiet Midwestern ghost story with prose as clear and cold as the Nebraska plains in winter.” —
Chicago Review of Books"A brutally beautiful tale."—Patrick T. Reardon,
Chicago Tribune"Astonishing writing about a world that deserves greater attention in contemporary literature."—
Library Journal, starred review
"A stunning tour de force centered in a small cattle ranching town."—Paige Van de Winkle,
Foreword Reviews, starred
"If Willa Cather and Cormac McCarthy had a love child, she would be a writer such as Fraterrigo."—Carol Haggas,
Booklist"Language and imagery of great originality are the most striking aspects of Melissa Fraterrigo's
Glory Days."—Céline Keating,
Necessary Fiction"Glory Days blends the surreal with the supernatural while remaining firmly grounded in the hearty Midwestern earth of its setting."—E. CE Miller,
Bustle"Fraterrigo draws beautiful imagery through deep metaphors. . . . Characters are chained by their past losses, chained by the grief that stiffens them. It's not until new life comes into lnglesside that these chains begin to break."—Hadeel Salameh,
Mid-American Review"Melissa Fraterrigo's novel-in-stories
Glory Days is at once ethereal and material. It dabbles in the natural and the supernatural, the spiritual and the corporeal. Set in the fictional town of Ingleside, Nebraska,
Glory Days pulls us into a struggling Midwestern community and into the psyches of its tragic residents. Haunted by their own pasts and the ghosts of their loved ones, the characters in
Glory Days are up against the forces of a world determined to overlook them."—Sarah L. Bailey,
StorySouth"Melissa Fraterrigo sets her novel
Glory Days against the backdrop of a key economic struggle in the United States—the death of the family farm and its devastating impact on rural and small-town life."—RT Both,
Colorado ReviewTable of ContentsAcknowledgments
Ghosts
Ruin
Bait
Bastard
Fredonia the Great
Footer
Surrounded
Glory Days
Remains
Skin
Teensy’s Daughter
Downer
First Body, Then Mind
Chains
