by Shelley Noble
Based on real people--the American artist/designer Louis Comfort Tiffany and his top-level team--with the action taking place in the stories of fictional young women who work in one of the glass studios. Two in particular--Emilie Pascal and Grace Griffith--are the centers. Emilie is the daughter of a notorious art forger in Paris; she escapes and keeps her identity well hidden when she comes to work at Tiffany's. (I'm not giving away the story; this happens in the first chapter and it's on the blurb) And Grace wants to be a political cartoonist in the newspapers of the day. They're both great characters, and their stories very well told and engaging.
Other characters come and go with hints of interesting backgrounds and aspirations, but too much of them would have made the book as long as a fantasy saga. It's just the right length as it is.
(Note: don't read the afterword. It bummed me out)
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