Perhaps we shall not see each other again. I will write to you, though, and tell
you, as best I can, the story of your family. A glass-blower, remember, breathe
s life into a vessel, giving it shape and form and sometimes beauty; but he can
with that same breath, shatter and destroy it' Faithful to her word, Sophie Duva
l reveals to her long-lost nephew the tragic story of a family of master craftsm
en in eighteenth-century France.
