This month's read is Tiffany Girl by Deeanne Gist
\nAs preparations for the 1893 World&rsquo\;s Fair set Chicago and the nation on fire\, Louis Tiffany&mda sh\;heir to the exclusive Fifth Avenue jewelry empire&mdash\;seizes the op portunity to unveil a state-of-the-art stained-glass mosaic chapel the lik es of which the world has never seen.
\nBut when Louis&rsquo\;s drea m is threatened by a glassworkers&rsquo\; strike months before the Fair op ens\, he turns to an unforeseen source for help: the female students at th e New York Art Institute. Eager for adventure\, the young women pick up th eir skirts\, move to boarding houses\, take up steel cutters\, and assume new identities as the &ldquo\;Tiffany Girls.&rdquo\;
\nTiffany Girl& nbsp\;is the heartwarming story of the impetuous Flossie Jayne\, a beautif ul budding artist who is handpicked by Louis to help complete the Tiffany chapel. Though excited to be an independent New Woman at a time when most of the fair sex stayed home\, she quickly finds the world is less welcomin g than she anticipated. From a Casanova male to an unconventional married couple and a condescending singing master\, she takes on a colorful cast o f characters to transform the boarding house into a home while racing to c omplete the Tiffany chapel and make a name for herself in the art world.\n
As challenges mount\, her ambitions become threatened from an unexp ected quarter: her own heart. What or who will claim victory? Her dreams o r the captivating boarder next door? \;
\nCopies available at th e Main Library\, or call to request pick up at the Eastgate Branch.
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