A review by tabbrower
Glimmerglass by Marly Youmans

challenging dark inspiring mysterious

4.0

Startlingly weird, quite good, unforgettable. Found Glimmerglass/Marly Youmans through Clive Hicks-Jenkins and now that I've been, it reminds me of nothing so much as the Forest in the Hallway. All time spent in Cynthia's head felt very, very familiar, dreamy like I get on my own, like today, reading this strange story in someone else's high-ceilinged home, with empty floors stretching below and above me. Especially on the heels of the Likeness, which was uneasy in a different way, Glimmerglass reminds me that I am not as wild as I think--it's hard to spend time in a story where even safety is hardly safe and beauty comes at extravagant cost. But what beauty.