Shades of Glass, by new Author Clarence B. Parker is a brazen and heartfelt novel steeped in history and mystery. With ironic twists, this dark, debut shows how a small community in the Pacific Northwest comes to grips with it's returning, often broken, Vietnam war veterans. In the summer of 1970, after he served his country, young disabled veteran, Brian Cooper heads back to his native Chehalis -Centralia, Washington, but finds civilian life very difficult to manage. Cought between a rock and a hard place it isn't until Cooper reacts heroically during a local tragedy and meets Clint Hunter, who has been called to the area to attend his best friend's funeral, that fate will take the upper hand and possibly right a wrong and prove that some destines wholly depend on small details