Quilt Stories

Book Description:

The quilt has always been a significant symbol of women’s craft and ingenuity. With the goal of making a product of both beauty and function, quilting has given women a practical outlet for their creativity, a way to preserve special memories, and a sense of community that comes with sharing and cooperation. Using the quilt as a theme for women’s literature, editor Cecilia Macheski has assembled twenty-eight stories, plays, and poems by such authors as Joyce Carol Oates, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Bobbie Ann Mason, Sharyn McCrumb, Marge Piercy, Alice Walker, and many others that explore how quilting reflects women’s ways of seeing, remembering, knowing, learning, and expressing. Representing over 150 years of fiction, Quilt Stories brings together a conscious and continuous women’s literary tradition in America.