Yarn Remembering the Way Home

Name: Yarn Remembering the Way Home
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ISBN: 9781934848630

ISBN-10: 1934848638

ISBN-13: 9781934848630

Edition: 2010

Authors: Kyoko Mori

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As steadily and quietly as her marriage falls apart, so Kyoko Mori¿s understanding of knitting deepens. From the flawed school mittens made in her native Japan, where needlework is used as a way to prepare women for marriage and silence, to the beautiful unmatched patterns of cardigans, hats and shawls made in the American Midwest, Kyoko draws the connection between knitting and the new life she tried to establish in the U.S. From the suicide of her mother to the last empty days of her marriage, Kyoko finds a way to begin again on her own terms. Interspersed with fact and history about knitting throughout, the narrative touchingly contemplates the nature of love, loss and what holds a…

Book details

List price: $15.95
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: GemmaMedia
Publication date: 11/1/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 240
Size: 5.00" wide x 8.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.550
Language: English

Born in Kobe, Japan, Kyoko Mori settled in Wisconsin at the age of sixteen. Now a Briggs-Copeland Lecturer in creative writing at Harvard University, she is the author of the prizewinning "Shizuko's Daughter" & four other books.