Candy's February Staff Pick

Clara and Mr. Tiffany

Written by Susan Vreeland

PS 3572 .R34 C63 2011

This is a fictional story written about real people. The main character Clara Driscoll works for Mr. Louis Comfort Tiffany, helping to create beautiful jaw-dropping masterful pieces of art with stained glass in an era where women were not expected to have a career and managing “her girls”. Mr. Tiffany has an odd rule about the women who work for him; I’ll let you find that out for yourself.

And, like the complex and detailed work of stained glass, Vreeland writes in all the drama, smudgy details, and the near comic opera-ness of Clara’s life. Sometimes Clara’s life was not as clear-cut and beautiful as the art she created.

Our CWC Library has both the audio-book and the book.