Author Connor Coyne’s second novel, Shattering Glass, was largely inspired by his experiences as a first-year student at the University of Chicago. The novel discloses many little-known secrets about dorm life, midterms, student organizations, and more. Join students Samo, Monty, Ezzie, and Dunya as they study, work, flirt, explore, and battle powers of ancient evil. Will they survive their first year of college?
Praise:
“With Shattering Glass, Connor Coyne has fashioned a hypnotic tale that is at once universal and otherworldly, with writing that is as inventive as the plot.”
— Gordon Young, author of Teardown: Memoir of a Vanishing City
“Don’t be fooled by the playful tone and pastiche of Connor Coyne’s second novel. Shattering Glass presents serious questions of identity and morality, posed by vivid characters of a strange and violent world.”
— Jeffery Renard Allen, author of Rails Under my Back and Song of the Shank
“It’s the First Year Experience from Hell, yet in often gorgeous and startlingly original prose, Connor Coyne gets at something heartwrenching and heartwarming about coming of age in academia.”
— Jan Worth-Nelson, author of Night Blind
“Shattering Glass is a wonder of a novel. Epic in scope, yet completely relatable on a personal level with characters that are three-dimensional and real. It’s a story that builds wonder upon wonder and then mixes in the strange, the horrifying, and more with level upon level and surprise upon surprise.”
— Bryan Alaspa, author of Sapphire and Vicious
“Shattering Glass is a lyrical epic that mixes the haunting surrealism of the first year of college with the dark mysteries of the best speculative fiction. A journey in every sense of the word.”
— Chris Ringler, author of The Meep Sheep and Cemetery Earth
“Coyne’s work has startling bright characters that ground a story that is prone to the fantastic.”
— M.L. Kennedy, author of The Mosquito Song and Thanksgiving for Werewolves