| Yarn: Remembering the Way Home Contributor(s): Mori, Kyoko (Author) |
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ISBN: 1934848638 ISBN-13: 9781934848630 Publisher: GemmaMedia OUR PRICE: $15.15 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 2009 Annotation: A memoir of crossing cultures, losing love and finding home by a New York Times Notable author. As steadily and quietly as her marriage falls apart, so Kyoko Moris understanding of knitting deepens. From flawed school mittens to beautiful unmatched patterns of cardigans, hats and shawls, Kyoko draws the connection between knitting and the new life she tried to establish in the U.S. Through the last, empty days of her marriage, Kyoko finds a way to begin again. Interspersed with the story of knitting throughout, the narrative contemplates the nature of love, loss and what holds a marriage together. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Women - Crafts & Hobbies | Needlework - Knitting - Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs |
| Dewey: B |
| Physical Information: 0.68" H x 5.02" W x 7.94" (0.57 lbs) 240 pages |
| Themes: - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: A memoir of crossing cultures, losing love and finding home by a New York Times Notable author in her prime. "Kyoko Mori writes about loss so quietly and wisely, and in a way no other memoirist I've read has ever managed." - Suzanne Berne, The Ghost at the Table, A Perfect Arrangement, A Crime in the Neighbourhood (Orange Prize for Fiction), and Lucile: My Grandmother in History, and Vice Versa. "Sit with Kyoko Mori as she artfully takes in hand needles and fiber, and also the realities of her life story, to knit this gorgeous memoir of loss, emigration, grief, identity and the work of her hands." - Suzanne Strempek Shea, Sundays in America: A Year-Long Roadtrip in Search of Christian Faith "Kyoko Mori's books are like red dragonflies at sunset. Afterwards, I'm not sure if I really experienced them or if it was a dream." - Henri Cole, Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize author of Middle Earth and Blackbird and Wolf 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 United States. 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 and Michael Pollan's The Botany of Desire, Kyoko Mori examines a particular subject to understand human nature―when to unravel, when to begin again, when to drop the stitch, and when to declare...it's finished. |
Contributor Bio(s): Mori, Kyoko: - Kyoko Mori is the author of two novels for young readers, ""One Bird ""and ""Shizuko's Daughter,"" the latter of which was chosen as a Best Young Children's Book by ""The New York Times,"" She has also written two memoirs for adults, ""Polite Lies ""and ""The Dream of Water,"" Born in Kobe, Japan, Mori moved to the United States as a teenager. She teaches writing at Harvard University. |