The Peacock Feast Av Lisa Gornick

<p><b>From ¿one of the most perceptive, compassionate writers of fiction in America...immensely talented and brave¿ </b><b>(Michael Schaub, NPR),</b><b> a historical saga about love, class, and the past we never escape.</b><br><br><i>The Peacock Feast</i> opens on a June day in 1916 when Louis C. Tiffany, the eccentric glass genius, dynamites the breakwater at Laurelton Hall¿his fantastical Oyster Bay mansion, with columns capped by brilliant ceramic blossoms and a smokestack hidden in a blue-banded minaret¿so as to foil the town from reclaiming the beach for public use. The explosion shakes both the apple crate where Prudence, the daughter of Tiffany¿s prized gardener, is sleeping and the rocks where Randall, her seven-year-old brother, is playing.<br><br>Nearly a century later, Prudence receives an unexpected visit at her New York apartment from Grace, a hospice nurse and the granddaughter of Randall, who Prudence never saw again after he left at age fourteen for California. The meme