Jessica Maria Tuccelli’s debut novel, Glow, opens in 1941, with an NAACP activist putting her daughter on a bus out of town to protect her from potential retribution. By the end of the book, only two days have passed, but the intervening pages wander more than a century back in time, alternating narrators who share stories of the exile of the Cherokee, Southern plantation life, and the rise of the Ku Klux Klan. Glow has no real plot, but it offers an enjoyable stroll through the lives of generations of Southerners connected by blood, circumstances, and the land on which they live.
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