How a jeweler's quest to create the world's largest jeweled egg led to his downfall

from Weekend Edition Sunday · host Don Gonyea

An obsession with making the world's largest golden egg brought down one family's storied jewelry business. NPR's Don Gonyea talks with Serena Kuchinsky about her memoir, "Kutchinsky's Egg."

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