Glass Cabin receives praise from The Daily Yonder

Here are two different (competing?) interests in rural folks: the urge to write to and the urge to write on behalf of, the duty to pay tribute and the duty to explain. Which way should we face when we talk about the places we love? The Braziels don’t have a single answer. (They explain that their partnership in writing—as in life—creates an implicit dialectic.)

Glass Cabin is built on relationships— between husband and wife, but also between city and country, parents and children, the body and the mind, and, most strikingly, work and love. “If I keep saying I love you,” James wrote, “will it be enough when I give you a hammer and drill and ask you to brace these boards?”

Jim first dreamed of the move to country more than a decade ago because it would make a writing life possible. But Tina insists it’s not merely that; it’s a creative life. “Everything we do here,” she told her husband, “is a creative act. Don’t you see that?

The Braziels understand how to weave rurality into a compelling tapestry — and The Daily Yonder agrees. Read the full article here.