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ID: 653455

Title: Glassworks

Author: Olivia Wolfgang-Smith

Narrator: Katherine Littrell

Format: Unabridged

Length: 14:16:29

Language: English

Release date: 05-16-23

Publisher: Dreamscape Media, LLC

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, LGBTQ+

Summary:

In 1910, Agnes Carter makes the wrong choice in marriage. After years as an independent woman of fortune, influential with the board of a prominent university because of her financial donations, she is now subject to the whims of an abusive, spendthrift husband. But when Bohemian naturalist and glassblower Ignace Novak reignites Agness passion for science, she begins to imagine a different life, and she sets her mind to getting it. Agness desperate actions breed secrecy, and the resulting silence echoes into the future. Her son Edward tries to make his way as a man of faith, but he struggles with what he does not understand about his parents, the meaning of family, and the world at large, while working at a stained-glass studio. In 1986, Edwards child Novakjust Novakis an acrobatic window washer cleaning Manhattan high-rises, a compulsive caretaker soon caught up in the plight of Cecily, a small-town girl remade as a gender-bending Broadway ingenue. And in 2015, Cecilys daughter Flipa burned-out stoner trapped in purgatorial cohabitation with her ex-girlfriend and a bureaucratic job firing cremains into keepsake glass ornamentsresolves to break the cycle of inherited secrets, reaching back through the generations in search of a family legacy that feels true. For fans of Mary Beth Keane, Min Jin Lee, and Rebecca Makkai, Glassworks is a profound and moving debut novel about family in all its forms.

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