Glass Century

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(83 90 98 1)>It's 1973 and Mona Glass is a 24-year-old amateur tennis star in a long-running affair with Saul Plotz her former college professor. Her parents like Saul and desperately want the free-spirited Mona to marry. But 34-year-old Saul already has a wife and two children. One day Saul happens on an idea: stage a fake wedding for the benefit of her old world parents invite a few friends in on the joke and go about their lives.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(83 90 98 1)>The ruse works. Except Saul realizes he actually wants to marry Mona who vows never to permanently tie herself to a man. After losing her city job in the 1970s fiscal crisis Mona becomes a freelance news photographer for a radical new tabloid. When she beats the competition to capture a photo of a murderous vigilante taking the city by storm she finds herself falling for a colleague-and Saul now a rising star in government who is butting up against a young man named Donald Trump fears he has lost her altogether. Years later the affair not quite dead Mona realizes she is pregnant with Saul's child.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(83 90 98 1)>Meanwhile Saul's adult son Tad is traveling aimlessly across America hunting for answers as the 1990s bleed into 9/11. Tad decides to take the darker path of the very vigilante Mona once exposed. And in the shadow of terrorism and war Mona and Saul raise their son Emmanuel together-keeping their life a secret from Saul's wife and children. Spanning from the 1970s to the pandemic this soaring heartbreaking novel is a tour de force of ambition and grace a great American chronicle that marks the emergence of a major new talent.</span></p><p></p>