Hardcover. Joining together to change their community, four women experience a surprising restoration of hearts and lives.
When her Aunt Teza faces a second bout with breast cancer, Kit Cooper resolves to raise money for a new mammogram unit by creating a magnificent king-sized quilt to be sewn and auctioned by the women of Jefferson City.
Kit's efforts quickly draw the support of disparate members of the community, including a young newcomer Beth Donnelly, married to a local pastor; Elaine Giovanni, the stylish wife of a local surgeon; and an ailing Aunt Teza. But as the four women work the squares of the quilt, they also are confronted with ragged pieces of their own lives.
Though the women could not be more different on the surface, they hold in common quiet suffering triggered by painful circumstances: the death of children, the abandonment of husbands, the loneliness of depression. Yet their struggles will bring them closer together than they ever could have anticipated and their lives will be dramatically changed, as together they experience the curative powers of The Healing Quilt.
Excellent novel of women bonding together to make a quilt to raise money for a mammogram machine. And healing together at the same time.
This is a wonderfully written book for women.....about women and for women. I highly recommend this book!!!
This is a very very lovely read. The lives of each woman is told and healing around the making of this healing quilt will begin.. With the help of each other they all get thru some extrememly difficult times and the making of the quilt is what brings them together. I loved the concept of this book, it is so totaly possible to do, for a support group. I loved these women and this book.
An excellent book about several different woman who heal with the help of other women who are make a quilt to auction to get a new mammogram machine at a local Washington Hospital. Intertwined is a theme of the woman in this town have a higher incidence of breast cancer, one of the women has a daughter who passed away from it at a very young age and an aunt who is diagnosed with it. This author is a great writer.
