Glass Shatters: A Novel

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An average of more than 90,000 people are reported missing in the United States at any given time, more than a third of which are children, meaning that many Americans know the loss and/or the fear of having ones spouse or child disappear and never return. (USA Today)

Scientific innovations such as cloning, genetic engineering, and three-dimensional printing are becoming increasingly possible in the modern world, and as such, debates about the moral implications of these advancements are coming to the forefront of the publics attention (headlining articles in The New York Times about the ethics of editing genes in human embryos and the potential of using the protein Crispr-Cas9 to alter adults genes, for example).

Authors has confirmed endorsements from authors Brian Evenson (Immobility), Ivy Pochoda (Visitation Street), and Dathan Auerbach (Penpal)

Author was a 2015 PEN Center Emerging Voices Fellow in Fiction, giving her exposure and the chance to network with PEN Centers 9,000 Twitter followers and almost 7,000 Facebook followers.

This fall, the author will be a blogger for The MFA Years, which averages over 5,000 page views per month.

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2016 USA Best Book Awards: Literary Fiction, Finalist [Meyers] weaves a strange pattern of beautifully detailed memories, tragic events, and science into an unforgettable tale of loss, longing, and the reality that one tries to escape in order to move on. Booklist "Glass Shatters is about fate versus free will, fiction versus reality. Bustle "With gothic undertones and lyrical prose, Glass Shatters is a must read for anyone interested in the unreliability of narrative, the construction of the self, and the way that memories can sometimes haunt." Foreword Reviews, Editor's Pick in Literary Fiction Glass Shatters is a puzzle, one that both the reader and the books narrator pick apart, deliberately circling a set of images, mere reflections, and shadows hinting at the truth, until reality comes devastatingly into focus. Meyers busts the detective story into pieces and digs through these shards to dissect memory, identity, and what it means to be alive. Brandi Wells, author of This Boring Apocalypse Glass Shatters is unlike any novel Ive read before. Its an inventive, daring, and remarkable debut that pushes the edges of fiction with tremendous success. Michelle Meyers is certainly a writer to watch. Ivy Pochoda, Visitation Street "About a trail of lost and found memories in a world of genetic science, each sentence in Glass Shatters is as crystalline and vivid as recall can get. Tightly plotted, it carefully walks and then fancifully deviates from the scientific through line, making both the novelist and science journalist in me applaud." Rebecca Coffey, author, Hysterical: Anna Freud's Story "A puzzle and a page-turner, Glass Shatters invites readers into a dark investigation of one man's attempt to recover his memories and identity. Michelle Meyers has expertly crafted an engrossing novel with a sophisticated blend of art, science, and emotion, one that is ultimately an imaginative elegy on the arresting forces of love and loss." Gallagher Lawson, author of The Paper Man Glass Shatters, the truly uncanny, memorable novel of (among other things) memory presents itself as a transparent tale that soon (it does grow on you) transmutes into the translucent transcendental shades of Poe and Dick and James at his supernatural-est. This is domestic hyper-realism, turning ever irreal at the edges. The book is a magnificent machine, machining the senses and sensation. Michelle Meyers splinters feelings, running them through the ringer, a sieve so fine-tuned one begins to see the tinge and tint that spark, right there, off the spectrum, just out of insight. Michael Martone, author of Michael Martone and Winesburg, Indiana Bold ideas explored with verve and imagination. Meyers is unafraid of taking the reader to bizarre and unexpected regions of this and other realities, along the way exploring the strangeness of existence. Charles Yu, author of How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe

Author Bio

Michelle Meyers is a fiction writer and playwright from Los Angeles, CA. She studied Literary Arts and Writing for Performance at Brown University, and is currently an MFA fiction candidate at the University of Alabama. Meyers writing has been featured in the Los Angeles Times, DOGZPLOT, jmww, Grey Sparrow Journal, and Juked, and she was a 2015 PEN Center Emerging Voices Fellow in Fiction. This is her first novel.