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The Chair Remembers
Paperback
General FictionHistorical FictionLiterary Fiction
Publisher Price: $16.99
Publisher: Glimpse Publishing House
Published: Mar 13 2026
Pages: 220
Weight: 0.57
Height: 0.50 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Book Two of The Chair Trilogy. The origin story.
Some chairs are built for sitting.
This one was built for waiting.
Before it became a place where grief could rest and strangers could breathe again, the Chair was a father's gift to his son.
In a small Midwestern town on the edge of World War II, Jayson Ward is a craftsman who knows how to repair what is broken-wood, tools, ordinary things. But after loss hollowed his home, he begins building something he does not yet understand: a chair meant to hold more than weight.
As his son Joshua grows into adulthood under the shadow of war, and a perceptive young boy named Marco enters their lives, the chair becomes a quiet witness to letters written across oceans, dreams interrupted by history, and the fragile bond between fathers and sons learning how to let go-and how to remain.
Told in lyrical, restrained prose, The Chair Remembers is a novel about:
- the things we build for those we love
- the cost of choosing mercy
- the quiet spaces that hold grief when words fail
- and the enduring power of presence over miracle
This second book in The Chair Trilogy returns to the origin of a legacy-revealing how a single act of love, shaped in wood and patience, becomes a place where sorrow can be set down and hope can wait.
For readers who cherish emotionally resonant literary fiction, reflective storytelling, and novels that linger long after the final page.
Some things don't end.
They wait.
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