a visceral, disturbing, and sometimes oh-so-tragic reminder that as a community we need to do more for our care-givers globally-that a round of applause is simply not enough.” - Locus Magazine “A haunting, intimate portrayal of the nurses who sacrifice their physical and psychological well-being for the sake of others. a lived-in portrait of a hardworking woman pushed to the fringes of her mind, where she keeps finding new reserves of strength, and a reminder that literary heroism takes many different forms." - Minneapolis Star Tribune a pungent piece of writing, tactile and sensory to the extreme. During our own time of heightened crisis, this bracing, even brutal, novel dresses you in the uncomfortable scrubs and clogs of one who has witnessed horror but then washed up to begin work again.” - The Boston Globe It reads almost like a thriller as Laura's mind slips. “Glass maintains fragile balance with poetic yet direct language, in a text anchored by epigrammatic chapter headings that makes this hallucinatory (yet all too graphically real) book click. Glass’s short book ably meets the ponderous inquiries of caregiving in a tribute to both fragility and forbearance." -The Washington Post functions as a powerful document, a testament to the silent class of first responders who risk their safety in exchange for scattered 7 p.m. "Glass’s Rest and Be Thankful powerfully describes what it means to be a health-care worker. Media Issues, Communication & Journalism.Computer Science & Information Technology.
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