OSHER 891 - Utah Authors: Dorothee Kocks, The Glass Harmonica

Praised by reviewers as "bawdy, geographically vast, and sensual indeed," DorOthee Kocks's The Glass Harmonica explores the intimate details of early American history with a novel of sensuality, ecstasy, and music that reads at the pace of a thriller. The story of a young woman exiled from her Corsican homeland, Chjara Vallé is sold as a servant to an opium addict in Paris. Music paves the way for her to flee with Henry, her love, to post-revolutionary America. There, new freedoms and Puritan vigor compete for ascendancy.