Local Maine Author Talk with Amy Wight Chapman

Amy Wight Chapman, author of Just Like Glass: A Family Memoir, will speak at Norway Memorial Library on Tuesday, March 11, 2025, at 6:30 p.m. Books will be available for purchase and signing the night of the event.  

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. 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 eight to fourteen, 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 her parents and a love letter to western Maine. It has received acclaim from such well-known Maine authors as Monica Wood, Elizabeth Peavey, Bill Roorbach, and Richard Blanco.

Amy and her husband have four adult children. They continue to live at camp during the summer and spend the remainder of the year just three miles away, in Greenwood. She is the Administrative Assistant for the Bethel Historical Society.

This program is free to attend and open to the public. Please call 743-5309 ext. 1, stop by the Information Desk, or e-mail norcat@norwaymemoriallibrary.org with questions.