The Threadbare Heart
Jennie Nashas awinning debut, a* The Last Beach Bungalow, was followed by The Only True Genius in the Family, a apage-turning delight.a** Now she introduces us to two women who learn the lessons of griefaand of hopeab A photo of her sons. A doormat from Target. Twenty-three tubs of fabric. Somehow it comforts Lily to list the things she lost when a wildfire engulfed the Santa Barbara avocado ranch she shared with her husband, Tom. He didnat make it out either. His last act was to save her grandmotheras lace from the flamesaan heirloom she has never been able to take scissors to, that she was saving for somedayab As she negotiates her way through her grief, mourning both the tangible and intangible, Lily wonders about her long marriage. Was it worth all the work, the self-denial? Did she stay with Tom just to avoid loneliness? Should she have been more like her mother, Eleanora thrice-married and even now, approaching eighty, cavalier about men and, it seems, even about her daughteras emotions? It is up to Lily to understand what she could still gain even when it seems that everything is lost. Someday has arrivedab *Publishers Weekly **Book Club Classics... to use pinking shears to cut out the shapes, and then how to thread the sewing machineaover, under, around, and through. ... and Lily would have a whole new wardrobe made by hand on her grandmothera#39;s black Singer sewing machine.
| Title | : | The Threadbare Heart |
| Author | : | Jennie Nash |
| Publisher | : | Penguin - 2010-05-04 |
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