The Glass House Author:William E. Thompson The Glass House is a compelling non-fiction account of one woman's two-year battle with cancer and the devastating effects of radiation. The daughter of an Oklahoma Territory dirt farmer, the same grit and determination that helped Flora survive two world wars, the Great Depression, and the Oklahoma dust bowl, insured that she would not die on ... more »anybody's terms but her own. On her death bed, she told her son stories of the other world she visited--a sanctuary where she lived in a huge glass house on an expansive horse ranch. A place where she wore high-heeled shoes, danced again, and battled floods, tornadoes, and outlaws. There, she surrounded herself with loved ones, tranforming her death and dying into a lesson about life and living.« less