The Knitting Circle - Softcover

A wondrously simple book about something complicated: the nearly unendurable process of enduring a great loss. The novel, like knitting, seems to make itself up as it goes along, the threads bound and gathered into a whole.--Carrie Brown

Acutely moving...The women's tragedies unfurl like skeins of yarn rolling down a slope.--Allison Lynn

A heartbreaker.--Elissa Schappel

Powerful and affecting.--John Marshal

One can only admire Hood for the effort she takes in this book to describe an insupportable grief...Undeniably real. The lesson--that being willing to share our stories, we learn how to live--cannot be dismissed.--Julie Wittes Schlack

Hood's words...pull you along, like a knitting pattern, one mesmerizing, settling click at a time, stitch by stitch, row by row, until you find yourself with something solid and real.--Peggy McMullen

This book is rich in sensory detail...This book shines a light on women helping each other and the world one stitch at a time.--Jan Marin Tramontano

After the sudden loss of her only child, Mary Baxter joins a knitting circle in Providence, Rhode Island, as a way to fill the empty hours and lonely days. The women welcome her, each teaching Mary a new knitting technique and, as they do, revealing their own personal stories of loss, love, and hope. Eventually Mary is able to tell her own story of grief and in so doing reclaims her love for her husband, faces the hard truths about her relationship with her mother, and finds the spark of life again.