The Glass Maker by Tracy Chevalier
Schedule
Mon Oct 13 2025 at 06:00 pm to 07:00 pm
UTC-05:00Location
Panera Bread (70 Town Center Parkway, Fremaux Town Center, Slidell, LA) | Slidell, LA
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It is 1486 and Venice is a wealthy, opulent center for trade. Orsola Rosso is the eldest daughter in a family of glassblowers on Murano, the island revered for the craft. As a woman, she is not meant to work with glass—but she has the hands for it, the heart, and a vision. When her father dies, she teaches herself to make glass beads in secret, and her work supports the Rosso family fortunes.Skipping like a stone through the centuries, in a Venice where time moves as slowly as molten glass, we follow Orsola and her family as they live through creative triumph and heartbreaking loss, from a plague devastating Venice to Continental soldiers stripping its palazzos bare, from the domination of Murano and its maestros to the transformation of the city of trade into a city of tourists. In every era, the Rosso women ensure that their work, and their bonds, endure.
Chevalier is a master of her own craft, and The Glassmaker is as inventive as it is spellbinding: a mesmerizing portrait of a woman, a family, and a city as everlasting as their glass.
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Panera Bread (70 Town Center Parkway, Fremaux Town Center, Slidell, LA), United StatesEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
