Sweeping Up Glass is a 2008 novel by Oklahoma City author Carolyn Wall that takes place within a segregated community in 1938.

However, her father, Tate, raises her and loves her a great deal while her mother is in a sanatorium.

Olivia and her father get into a horrible car accident that kills James Arnold.

She has a relatively happy life despite her mother's constant madness and disapproval of her for 12 years before her husband dies.

Olivia grows closer to William over the years to the point that he is her sole source of joy.

He thinks that Olivia knows a great secret about him and his friends because her father discovered it many years ago.

She then goes home and discovers some old books of her father's that details where the victims of the Cott'ners are buried.

Publishers Weekly stated, as the action moves inexorably to its explosive conclusion, Olivia must come to grips with past betrayals, thereby earning a second chance at love, redemption and long overdue justice.

[1] Library Journal stated, the suspense is gripping, the danger is very real, and the reader gets caught up in Wall's powerful, moving debut.

[1] O, The Oprah Magazine stated, this book is haunting, lyrical, entirely absorbing, Sweeping Up Glass deserves a place on the shelf next to classics like True Grit and To Kill A Mockingbird.