Strong Glass
A Memoir of Escaping the Dark Mirror of Family History
Published on 2. June 2026
Book
Paperback/Softback
326 pages
978-1-62720-663-1 (ISBN)
Description
The fragile shell holding together Peggy's successful yet troubled life shatters when her husband announces he is leaving. Suddenly aware she is repeating toxic behaviors she saw modeled long ago, Peggy turns to reckon with the dark mirror of the dysfunctional family she'd fled.
Strong Glass takes readers on her journey into memory as she pieces together her lineage and its legacy. Her 1950s childhood comes alive on the page, interwoven with travels through her parents' formative years during the Great Depression and World War II. The intergenerational family business-specializing in stained glass creation and mirror restoration-in the rural western Maryland village of Cresaptown forms the backdrop.
Peggy learns that for many with an inherited history of trauma, gazing into the mirror of the past offers the healing grace of insight. This poignant narrative of damage and renewal begins with a single shock of illumination and ends in empathy, compassion, and absolution.
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Language
English
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
412 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-62720-663-1 (9781627206631)
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Person
M. D. (Peggy) Roblyer, retired professor of educational technology. authored a dozen Pearson Education textbooks, including Integrating Educational Technology into Teaching, which introduced a novel approach to the discipline in 1996 and became its bestselling text; it remains the field leader today in ninth edition. Strong Glass is her first nonacademic book; she is at work on another. Some of her nonfiction pieces have been published by Orange Blossom Books and a variety of online sites, and two are Chattanooga Writer's Guild contest-winners. Roblyer lives in Chattanooga, Tennessee, with her husband.