Acutely moving...The women's tragedies unfurl like skeins of yarn rolling down a slope.--Allison Lynn

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

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

A heartbreaker.--Elissa Schappel

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

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Pub date: 2008-01-17

Length: 346 pages