Stitching Love and Loss: A Gee's Bend Quilt

by Lisa Gail Collins

Book Overview

Winner of the 2023 Horowitz Prize by the Bard Graduate Center

Shortlisted for the 2024 Charles C. Eldredge Prize by the Smithsonian American Art Museum

A meditation on suffering, resilience, creativity, and grace

In 1942 Missouri Pettway, newly suffering the loss of her husband, pieced together a quilt out of his old, worn work clothes. Nearly six decades later her daughter Arlonzia Pettway, approaching eighty at the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0295751606
• ISBN13: 9780295751603
• Release Date: June 2023
• Publisher: University of Washington Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 5.7" x 8.4"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher