NORWAY — Amy Wight Chapman, author of “Just Like Glass: A Family Memoir,” plans to speak at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 11, at Norway Memorial Library, 258 Main St. Books will be available for purchase and signing the night of the event.

Amy Wight Chapman on Bucks Ledge. Submitted photo

“Just Like Glass,” her debut book, is the story of one transformative year in the life of the author’s four older siblings and their mother Ruth, according to a news release from Alana DePerte with the library.

In 1958, just as the school year is ending, Ruth’s husband Bill is felled by a fatal heart attack. Not knowing what else to do, she loads her grief-stricken children, ages 8 to 14, into the station wagon with the family dog and drives north to spend the summer at their lakeside camp in western Maine.

Told in the several voices of the ones who lived it, this family memoir relates how a tough-as-nails matriarch and the stillness of North Pond set them on the path to healing, even as they struggle to redefine themselves as a family unit, with one unexpected addition.

The book is a tribute to Chapman’s parents and a love letter to western Maine. It has received acclaim from Maine authors Monica Wood, Elizabeth Peavey, Bill Roorbach and Richard Blanco.

Chapman and her husband continue to live at camp during the summer and spend the remainder of the year three miles away in Greenwood. She is the administrative assistant for the Bethel Historical Society.

This public program is free. For questions call 207-743-5309 ext. 1, stop by the information desk or email norcat@norwaymemoriallibrary.org.

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