Book description
A memoir of crossing cultures, losing love and finding home by a New
York Times Notable author in her prime. As steadily and quietly as her
marriage falls apart, so Kyoko Mori?s understanding of knitting deepens.
From the flawed school mittens made in her native Japan, where
needlework is used as a way to prepare women for marriage and silence,
to the beautiful unmatched patterns of cardigans, hats and shawls made
in the American Midwest, Kyoko draws the connection between knitting and
the new life she tried to establish in the U. S. From the suicide of her
mother to the last empty days of her marriage, Kyoko finds a way to
begin again on her own terms. Interspersed with fact and history about
knitting throughout, the narrative touchingly contemplates the nature of
love, loss and what holds a marriage together. In the tradition of M F K
Fisher?s The Gastronomical Me, Joan Didion?s Where I Was From and
Michael Pollan?s The Botany of Desire, Mori examines a specific subject
to understand human nature - when to unravel, when to begin again, when
to drop the stitch, and when to declare?it?s finished.
