A gorgeously written and irresistibly intimate queer novel that follows one family across four generations to explore legacy and identity in all its forms.A Goodreads Buzziest Debut Novel of 2023In 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.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.In 1986, Edward's child, Novak-just Novak-is an acrobatic window washer cleaning Manhattan high-rises, who gets caught up in the
Author : Olivia Wolfgang-Smith
Pages : pages
Publisher :
Language :
ISBN-10 : 9781635578775
ISBN-13 : 9781635578775