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A review by sandytfrench
How To Make An American Quilt by Whitney Otto
3.75
How To Make An American Quilt by Whitney Otto
⭐️⭐️⭐️ 3.75 stars
This is for the Old Favour Pass/Winter Magical Readathon prompt: "Listen to an audiobook while crafting or read a book with a craft in the title."
The novel tells the intersecting stories of several generations of women who together are part of the same quilting circle in the fictional town of Grasse, California.
I very much enjoyed the writing in this; it is a character study and no plot whatsoever, which is fine by me. I really appreciated how this book was organised in vignettes, each focusing on the lives of the members of a quilting circle, interspersed with the story of quilt-making and its cultural and social significance.
We see a changing society through the lives of these women, dreams and ambitions snuffed in the name of expectations and conformity, love, heartbreak and grief, their differences and also what binds them together.
It is a little bite of a book and I really did love Otto's writing. A lot of the reviews I read also praised the movie, so I'm really interested in watching it now.
⭐️⭐️⭐️ 3.75 stars
This is for the Old Favour Pass/Winter Magical Readathon prompt: "Listen to an audiobook while crafting or read a book with a craft in the title."
The novel tells the intersecting stories of several generations of women who together are part of the same quilting circle in the fictional town of Grasse, California.
I very much enjoyed the writing in this; it is a character study and no plot whatsoever, which is fine by me. I really appreciated how this book was organised in vignettes, each focusing on the lives of the members of a quilting circle, interspersed with the story of quilt-making and its cultural and social significance.
We see a changing society through the lives of these women, dreams and ambitions snuffed in the name of expectations and conformity, love, heartbreak and grief, their differences and also what binds them together.
It is a little bite of a book and I really did love Otto's writing. A lot of the reviews I read also praised the movie, so I'm really interested in watching it now.