My Amazon review of A House Among the Trees by Julia Glass (Rated 4): A Hidden Public Life – Julia Glass dives beneath the surface of a public figure — a well known author of illustrated children’s books who has died — to unearth the man’s formative influences. The story is told from three perspectives, a device that works well, although some narrators are more satisfying than others. In the end, Glass does not penetrate the life of the artist, which is perhaps her message, although as a reader (and writer and artist), I wished for more. At times, the long digressions into back story overwhelmed the present narrative. However, Glass makes us care about her three living protagonists, all of whom, rather than being left in the late artist’s wake, are ready to create their own futures.
