Stitching Love and Loss: A Gee's Bend Quilt

by Lisa Gail Collins

Book Overview

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 time and a seasoned quiltmaker herself, readily recalled the cover...

• 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