Book cover for The Glovemaker

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21 February 2019
304 pages
9780230745773
Imprint: Mantle

Reviews

The Glovemaker, Ann Weisgarber’s engrossing, troubling, honest-to-goodness third novel, is as stark and touching as the lives described, as tense and testing as the Utah backlands where it’s set, as fine as any fiction you will read this year
A tense, taut, historically faithful tale
Ann Weisgarber is a historian of the first degree, but her true strength lies in crafting sweeping and often poignant fictional narratives of the iconic women who helped settle the American heartland. Ms. Weisgarber, in The Glovemaker, has once again created a heroine of extraordinary grace and courage in a challenging, at times violent, but ultimately sublime landscape.
Weisgarber's exploration of a woman struggling to satisfy her conscience is telling and touching