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The Glassmaker: A Novel, by Tracy Chevalier (2024, 416 pages).
Per Amazon: From the bestselling historical novelist (she also wrote Girl with a Pearl Earring), a rich, transporting story that follows a family of glassmakers from the height of Renaissance-era Italy (Venice) to the present day. It starts out in 1486; 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… and so on.
The book was named a Best Historical Novel of 2024 by several publications.