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Glassworks, Olivia Wolfgang-Smith

eng

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fiction

Glassworks

1345218125

Olivia Wolfgang-Smith

In 1910, Agnes Carter makes the wrong choice in marriage. After years as an independent woman, she is now subject to the whims of an abusive husband. But when glassblower Ignace Novak reignites Agnes's passion, Agnes begins to imagine a different life. Her son, Edward, wants to be a man of faith but struggles with the complexities of the world while apprenticing at a stained-glass studio. In 1986, Edward's child, Novak is an acrobatic window washer, who gets caught up with Cecily, a small town girl remade as a gender-bending Broadway ingénue. In 2015, Cecily's daughter Flip-a burned-out stoner trapped in a job firing keepsake glass ornaments-resolves to break the cycle of inherited secrets

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