Cover Crush: Like Glass by Jen Ferguson

Jen Ferguson’s debut The Summer of Bitter and Sweet introduced readers to a Métis author who writes about grief, identity, and the things families carry across generations. In Like Glass, her fourth YA novel, Tatum travels to Chamonix to retrieve her estranged father after her sister’s death and finds herself sleeping in her sister’s bed, which is an entire metaphor for living with her sister’s ghost. Out October 6th, the cover has two girls facing each other alongside a stained glass window, and if you loved what Jen did with grief and family in her debut, we can only imagine this will be a hit, too!

Like Glass

by Jen Ferguson
Published by: Heartdrum
on October 6, 2026
Genres: Contemporary, Young Adult
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From award-winning author Jen Ferguson (Métis) comes the luminous story of a family steeped in grief and love.

When Tatum Nova Lambert boards a plane to Chamonix, a town in the French Alps, she has one half-formed plan: to drag her Michelin-star-winning dad home. Since her older sister Bronwyn’s death a year ago, Tate and her dad don’t talk. They barely even text. So when he doesn’t pick her up at the transit station like he said he would, it’s no surprise.

What is a complete and very unwelcome surprise? Her dad is unexpectedly living in Bronwyn’s apartment, and Tate discovers she’ll be sleeping in her sister’s bed—the one Bronwyn died in. In the apartment and at her dad’s restaurant, it’s hard to bear both her dad’s broken promises and her sister’s ghost.

While trying to untangle the secret life Tate’s sister left behind, Tate meets Agatha, a schedule-obsessed Olympic ski-jump hopeful, and Beetle, a pickpocket and general teenaged dirtbag. As the unlikely trio explore in the mountains’ shadow, Tate brings her distinct kind of chaos to everyone’s lives—all while she tries to figure out if she can forgive her dad and her sister for leaving her behind.