How to Make an American Quilt (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Whitney Otto
- First Published: 1991
- Type of Work: Novel
- Time of Work: The 1920’s to the 1990’s
- Setting: A fictional small town in California
- Principal Characters: Finn Bennett-Dodd, Hy Dodd, Glady Joe Cleary, Anna Neale, Marianna, Sophia Darling, Em Reed, Constance Saunders, Corrina Amurri
- Genres: Long fiction, Domestic realism
- Subjects: Parents and children, Love or romance, Twentieth century, Marriage, Betrayal, Friendship, Quilts or quilting, Women, Identity
- Locales: California
With How to Make an American Quilt, first-time novelist Whitney Otto has managed a difficult double feat, winning both critical and popular acclaim for her writing debut. Set in the fictional town of Grasse, California, the book chronicles the lives of the members of a weekly quilting circle, piecing together their stories in the way that a quilt is pieced together and forming a completed work that encompasses the themes and events that have shaped American women in the twentieth century. Marriages and children, love and betrayal, bigotry and disappointed hopes all mark the lives...
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