Enchanted Glasses
A Novel in Songs
Steve Keith
In October 1957, a three-year-old boy is carried out into his backyard in Malden, Massachusetts, to watch Sputnik cross the sky. Sixty-eight years later, his granddaughter sets up his old telescope in a dark valley in the Berkshires.
Between those two nights is the life of Leo Marsh: engineer, songwriter, husband, father, grandfather, and a man who falls down and keeps getting back up.
Enchanted Glasses is a novel told through the twenty-six songs Leo writes along the way, and you can listen to every one of them as you read.
“The first thing Leo Marsh ever remembered was being lifted out of bed in the dark.”
Read the book
Read it online, with the music
- Online: best on a computer or a tablet turned sideways. The songs and videos play beside the story as you read.
- E-book (EPUB): for Apple Books, Kindle and most e-readers. Kindle readers can send it with Send to Kindle.
- PDF: laid out like a printed book, for reading or printing.
The music
Every song in the book is collected, in story order, on the album Enchanted Glasses: Songs from the Novel, with the complete novel included in the download.
Get the soundtrack on Bandcamp
The songs originally appeared on three albums, Horse Latitudes, A Second Passed and Charm, all on Bandcamp. Each now includes the book as well.
About the author
Steve Keith played bass in the Boston band Private Lightning, whose album came out on A&M Records in 1980. He lives in Peabody, Massachusetts, with his wife, Patty, and their dog, Rudy. Enchanted Glasses is his first novel.