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A review by chpark012
How to Make an American Quilt by Whitney Otto
4.0
Wellllll I actually give this one 3.5-3.75 stars.
It wasn’t amazing, but it was good. The various stories of each of these women’s lives, loves, disappointments, and failures were interesting to explore. The parallels between the binding of parts together in quilting and in marriage was well done. They even addressed this same theme by exploring the challenges of being biracial.
The narrator talks about her apprehension that her single self and her married self can’t be reconciled AND that her life and her fiancé’s life can’t be joined. She attempts to address this by talking about quilting a Crazy Quilt, which is a joining of random themes from these quilters’ lives. All their stories are told... but I just didn’t feel like the “instructions” chapters did a good job of tying the stories together (ironic for a book about tying disparate parts together). The book ended up feeling closer to a collection of short stories.
I still think that this book was worth reading once... but that’s probably it.
It wasn’t amazing, but it was good. The various stories of each of these women’s lives, loves, disappointments, and failures were interesting to explore. The parallels between the binding of parts together in quilting and in marriage was well done. They even addressed this same theme by exploring the challenges of being biracial.
The narrator talks about her apprehension that her single self and her married self can’t be reconciled AND that her life and her fiancé’s life can’t be joined. She attempts to address this by talking about quilting a Crazy Quilt, which is a joining of random themes from these quilters’ lives. All their stories are told... but I just didn’t feel like the “instructions” chapters did a good job of tying the stories together (ironic for a book about tying disparate parts together). The book ended up feeling closer to a collection of short stories.
I still think that this book was worth reading once... but that’s probably it.