![]() In 1986, Edward's child, Novak-just Novak-is an acrobatic window washer cleaning Manhattan high-rises, who gets caught up in the plight of Cecily, a small town girl remade as a gender-bending Broadway ingénue.Īnd in 2015, Cecily's daughter Flip-a burned-out stoner trapped in a bureaucratic job firing cremains into keepsake glass ornaments-resolves to break the cycle of inherited secrets, reaching back through the generations in search of a family legacy that feels true.įor readers of Mary Beth Keane, Min Jin Lee, and Rebecca Makkai, Glassworks is "an era-spanning, family and chosen-family following, marvel of a debut." (CJ Hauser, author of FAMILY OF ORIGIN) Her son, Edward, wants to be a man of faith but struggles with the complexities of the mortal world while apprenticing at a But when Bohemian naturalist and glassblower Ignace Novak reignites Agnes's passion for science, Agnes begins to imagine a different life, and she sets her mind to getting it.Īgnes's desperate actions breed secrecy, and the resulting silence echoes into the future. ![]() ![]() 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. In 1910, Agnes Carter makes the wrong choice in marriage. ![]() A gorgeously written and irresistibly intimate queer novel that follows one family across four generations to explore legacy and identity in all its forms. ![]()
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