Part of Elm Creek Quilts, book 5
First published 2004
Sylvia Compson decides to track down her mother's heirloom quilts after years of wondering what became of them. She travels across the country, visiting antique shops and quilt museums in her search. Along the way, she encounters people who offer help, though their motives are not always clear. Some quilts she manages to recover. Others she must accept are gone forever. As Sylvia pieces together her mother's story through these quilts, she comes to understand the woman her mother truly was. She also grieves for the relationship they never had. The search becomes more than a hunt for fabric and thread. It becomes a journey into family history and the fragile bonds between mothers and daughters across generations.
Genres: literary-fiction, family-life, historical-fiction, 20th-century, 21st-century, family-drama
Vibes: emotional, intimate, thought-provoking
Tropes: found-family, second-chance
310 pages · Paperback · Plume