03555cam a2200625 4500 2464442255 TxAuBib 20250730120000.0 ||||||s2023||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781635578782 1635578787 B0BJ6RCHCJ Amazon 5c5c8dba-350a-4d24-a05c-c2483088c956 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 9315290 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Wolfgang-Smith, Olivia. Glassworks [Libby eBook]. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2023. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. center for fiction. intergenerational. best of the year. Mutual Interest. domestic abuse. award winning. generational. Historical. obsession. nonbinary. they/them. Bisexual. gripping. Literary. Lesbian. family. Boston. Chosen. lgbtq+. glass. LGBTQ. debut. trans. found. Saga. Gay. HTML:<b>A gorgeously written and irresistibly intimate queer novel that follows one family across four generations to explore legacy and identity in all its forms.</b><br /> <b><br /></b><b>Longlisted for the Center for Fiction and VCU Cabell First Novel Prizes</b><br /> <b>Named a Best Book of the Year by NPR, Apple, and <i>Good Housekeeping</i></b><br /> 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 Agnes's passion for science, Agnes begins to imagine a different life, and she sets her mind to getting it.<br /> Agnes's desperate actions breed secrecy, and the resulting silence echoes into the future. Her son, Edward, wants to be a man of faith but struggles with the complexities of the mortal world while apprenticing at a stained-glass studio.<br /> 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.<br /> And 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.<br /> With "gripping turns and subtle prose" (<i>The Washington Post</i>), <i>Glassworks</i> is a sophisticated debut that holds you in its thrall until the last page. Historical Fiction. LGBTQIA+ (Fiction.) Literature. Fiction. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2025-07-30 20:00:03. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=5c5c8dba-350a-4d24-a05c-c2483088c956&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=5c5c8dba-350a-4d24-a05c-c2483088c956&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)