Description

Evylyn, I m going to give a present that s as hard as you are and as beautiful and as empty and as easy to see through.

When New York housewife Evylyn Piper receives a cut-glass bowl from a former boyfriend as a wedding gift, it s like the bowl brings a curse along with it. As years go by, a downward spiral seems to engulf her family and all she has to blame is that cursed bowl.

Fitzgerald s descriptions are vivid and spellbinding. In The Cut-Glass Bowl he explores themes of unrealized dreams inherent to middle age, which he would later dive deeper into with The Greats Gatsby .