The thread collectors : a novel / Shaunna J. Edwards and Alyson Richman.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781525804823
- ISBN: 1525804820
- Physical Description: 370 pages ; 24 cm.
- Publisher: Toronto, Ontario : Graydon House, [2022]
- Copyright: ©2022
Content descriptions
General Note: | Includes author's note and reader's guide with discussion questions on unnumbered pages at back of book. |
Summary, etc.: | In 1863, a young Black woman who embroiders intricate maps on repurposed cloth to help enslaved men flee and join the Union Army crosses paths with a Jewish seamstress who helps her discover that even the most delicate threads have the capacity to save. |
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Genre: | Historical fiction. |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at GRPL.
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Author Notes
The Thread Collectors : A Novel
Alysin Richman was born on May 19, 1972. She graduated from Wellesley College in 1994 and received a Thomas J. Watson Fellowship. She is best known for her novel The Lost Wife, which is a story about a husband and wife who are separated in a concentration camp during World War II and met up years later at their grandchildren's wedding. Her other title's include The Mask Carver's Son, The Ryhthm of Memory, The Last Van Gogh, and The Garden of Letters. (Bowker Author Biography)