Knitting Circle by Ann Hood
In the spirit of How to Make an American Quilt and The Joy Luck Club comes this novel about friendship and redemption. After the sudden loss of Stella, her only child, Mary Baxter joins a knitting circle in Providence, Rhode Island. Seeking a way to fill the empty hours and lonely days, she little realizes that the circle will change her life. Alice, Scarlet, Lulu, Beth, Harriet, and Ellen welcome Mary into their circle despite her reluctance to open her heart to them. Each woman teaches Mary a new knitting technique, and, as they do, they reveal to her their own personal stories of loss, love, and hope. Eventually, through the hours they spend knitting and talking together, Mary is finally able to tell her own story of grief. In doing so, she reclaims her love for her husband, faces the hard truths about her relationship with her mother, and finds the spark of life again.
"A wondrously simple book about something complicated: the nearly unendurable process of enduring a great lossThe novel, like knitting, seems to make itself up as it goes along, the threads bound and gathered into a whole." -- Carrie Brown - Washington Post
"Acutely moving…The women’s tragedies unfurl like skeins of yarn rolling down a slope." -- Allison Lynn - People
"A heartbreaker." -- Elissa Schappel - Vanity Fair
"I closed The Knitting Circle feeling uplifted, even cleansed. I felt as if I were seeing with fresh eyes, ready to forgive old hurts and entertain new thoughts." -- Marion Winik - Newsday
"Powerful and affecting." -- John Marshal - Seattle Post-Intelligencer
"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 - Boston Globe
"[Hood’s] portrait of Mary’s grief is so real and so raw. The unpredictable arc of it…gives Mary’s grief a three-dimensional humanity that a less familiar portraitist might have missed…The prose of The Knitting Circle is clear, even as Mary’s perspective is clouded by heartbreak, and the pace of the story is just right." -- Beth Schwartzapfel - Providence Journal
"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 - The Oregonian
"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 - Albany Times Union
"Acutely moving…The women’s tragedies unfurl like skeins of yarn rolling down a slope." -- Allison Lynn - People
"A heartbreaker." -- Elissa Schappel - Vanity Fair
"I closed The Knitting Circle feeling uplifted, even cleansed. I felt as if I were seeing with fresh eyes, ready to forgive old hurts and entertain new thoughts." -- Marion Winik - Newsday
"Powerful and affecting." -- John Marshal - Seattle Post-Intelligencer
"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 - Boston Globe
"[Hood’s] portrait of Mary’s grief is so real and so raw. The unpredictable arc of it…gives Mary’s grief a three-dimensional humanity that a less familiar portraitist might have missed…The prose of The Knitting Circle is clear, even as Mary’s perspective is clouded by heartbreak, and the pace of the story is just right." -- Beth Schwartzapfel - Providence Journal
"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 - The Oregonian
"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 - Albany Times Union
Ann Hood is the author of more than a dozen books of memoir and fiction, including the best-selling novels The Book That Matters Most, The Red Thread, and The Knitting Circle. She lives in Providence, Rhode Island, and New York.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780393330441 |
| ISBN 10 | 0393330443 |
| Title | Knitting Circle |
| Author | Ann Hood |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | WW Norton & Co |
| Year published | 2008-02-01 |
| Number of pages | 352 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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