The Lost Quilter
I made it home from the mini shop hop I took with my mom and sister. I cannot wait to tell you all about the shops we visited, fabric I bought and food we ate. First though, I want to tell you about the fantastic book I read each evening before my head hit the pillow. I don’t know if any of you have read the Elm Creek Quilts series of books by Jennifer Chiaverini. If not, you should read them. They are intriguing stories about women who get together to quilt and find themselves sharing their lives.
The Lost Quilter, the book I just finished, is not a light hearted story. It is a heartfelt story about a woman who is a slave.
From Amazon:
When Sylvia Bergstrom Compson and her staff find a stash of old letters hidden in an antique desk in the manor’s attic, the story whips back to 1859 to recount the travails of the formidable Joanna North, an escaped slave who spent a brief respite at Elm Creek Farm. Joanna is recaptured and sent back to the Virginia plantation she thought she had finally escaped, and is eventually dispatched to Charleston to work under her former master’s demanding newlywed niece, Miss Evangeline. As the Civil War looms, Joanna learns that for a slave, nothing—love, family, loyalty—is sacred or certain, and she never ceases plotting her final escape in the patterns of her scrap quilting. This satisfying and redemptive narrative unfolds with cinematic clarity, and Joanna’s journey is sure to have readers holding their breath for her until the last page.
Holding my breath! Yes siree! I could not wait to see what was going to happen next.
can you send it to me? I want to read that one too!
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