Writer Amy Chapman stands with the original photographs that will be used as chapter headers in her book, “Just Like Glass,” to be published in November.

GREENWOOD — Amy Chapman is entering the final stages of publishing her book, “Just Like Glass,” a memoir of her mother focusing on a period from 1958 to 1959.

While Chapman has explored various writing projects, this will be her first published book.

The genre has been tentatively dubbed “family memoir,” as it does not follow the conventional style of a memoir. Some parts are entirely fictionalized, put together from speculation and stories from a time before Chapman was born.

A large part of it is also written in first person, from the perspective of her mother. Chapman described the book as “a love letter to Western Maine.” She has always had a fondness for Maine.

“It was always where I was going to end up,” she said.

This book helps capture that love through the setting of her family’s camp on North Pond. The facts from the life of Chapman’s mother have primarily been assembled by her siblings through a series of email conversations.

In the introduction to her book she writes, “Their own stories, told in their own words, with their own individual voices coming through loud and clear, added more depth and substance than I could have imagined.”

In an interview she added, “Writing it really brought us siblings closer together.”

The memoir covers her mother’s journey after the death of her husband, leaving her as a young widow left to raise her children. This story has been in the works since 2006, Chapman said.

“After my mom died, I kept hearing her voice telling her story to me,” Chapman said. She added that she intends to write another novel, but “this was the project that I had to write before I could finish anything else.”

The book will be published by the Bethel Historical Society, with the assistance of Chapman’s son, Will Chapman. According to Amy Chapman, the primary theme of the book is that “really awful things can happen and you can still bounce back.” Or, in a single word: “resilience.”

The book will be officially published in early November.