![]() It covers Marie’s and Wanda’s stories during 1910-1911. This second book in Petra Durst-Benning’s series about a trio of German sisters is virtually a standalone. Franco manages to persuade Marie to move with him to his parents’ estate in Genoa. Marie inadvertently tells Wanda a family secret that upsets her, and she heads off to Lauscha to learn more about her past. Marie enjoys the Greenwich Village atmosphere, where she meets an Italian nobleman, Franco. Wanda, unable to hold a steady job, is facing dilemmas of her own but is delighted to take her Aunt Marie around NYC. She wants 18-year-old Wanda to act high-class as well. Ruth, married to a Woolworth executive, lives a fashionable life in a high-rise, attending and arranging dinner parties, charitable events and such. ![]() She decides to re-energize herself by visiting her sister, Ruth, who had moved to New York along with her daughter, Wanda. Something is also blocking Marie’s inventiveness. She is awakened from the nightmare by her boyfriend’s soothing voice, his arms around her. Unable to slip it off and breathe, she screams. ![]() ![]() One night in 1910, in the German village of Lauscha, Marie, a creative glassblower, feels as if someone has shoved a glass dome over her head. ![]() Written by Petra Durst-Benning Samuel Willcocks (trans.) The American Lady: The Glassblower Trilogy ![]()
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