![]() ![]() ![]() 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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