The Knitting Circle
Ann Hood
(Author)
Description
After the loss of her only child, Mary Baxter finds herself unable to read or write, the activities that used to be her primary source of comfort. She reluctantly joins a knitting circle as a way to fill her lonely days--not knowing it will change her life. As they teach Mary new knitting techniques, the women in the circle also reveal their own secrets of loss, love, and hope. With time, Mary is finally able to tell her own story of grief, and in so doing finds the spark of life again.
Product Details
Price
$16.95
$15.76
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Publish Date
January 17, 2008
Pages
346
Dimensions
5.54 X 0.85 X 8.32 inches | 0.62 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9780393330441
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About the Author
Ann Hood is the author of eleven books, including the best-selling novels The Book That Matters Most and The Knitting Circle, and the memoirs Comfort: A Journey Through Grief and Kitchen Yarns: Notes on Life, Love, and Food. She lives in Providence, Rhode Island, and New York City.
Reviews
A wondrously simple book about something complicated: the nearly unendurable process of enduring a great loss. The novel, like knitting, seems to make itself up as it goes along, the threads bound and gathered into a whole.--Carrie Brown
Acutely moving...The women's tragedies unfurl like skeins of yarn rolling down a slope.--Allison Lynn
A heartbreaker.--Elissa Schappel
Powerful and affecting.--John Marshal
One can only admire Hood for the effort she takes in this book to describe an insupportable grief...Undeniably real. The lesson--that being willing to share our stories, we learn how to live--cannot be dismissed.--Julie Wittes Schlack
Hood's words...pull you along, like a knitting pattern, one mesmerizing, settling click at a time, stitch by stitch, row by row, until you find yourself with something solid and real.--Peggy McMullen
This book is rich in sensory detail...This book shines a light on women helping each other and the world one stitch at a time.--Jan Marin Tramontano
Acutely moving...The women's tragedies unfurl like skeins of yarn rolling down a slope.--Allison Lynn
A heartbreaker.--Elissa Schappel
Powerful and affecting.--John Marshal
One can only admire Hood for the effort she takes in this book to describe an insupportable grief...Undeniably real. The lesson--that being willing to share our stories, we learn how to live--cannot be dismissed.--Julie Wittes Schlack
Hood's words...pull you along, like a knitting pattern, one mesmerizing, settling click at a time, stitch by stitch, row by row, until you find yourself with something solid and real.--Peggy McMullen
This book is rich in sensory detail...This book shines a light on women helping each other and the world one stitch at a time.--Jan Marin Tramontano
