Amazon.com Book Description (ISBN 0618710477, Paperback)

In Anne Bartlett's engaging debut, a chance meeting sparks a tenuous friendship between two very different women, who form an unlikely bond over their mutual fascination with knitting. Sandra, a rigid academic, struggles to navigate the world without her husband, whom she has recently lost to cancer. Marthaa gifted, self-taught textile artist with her own secret stores of griefspends her days knitting elaborate projects charged with personal meaning. As the two women open their lives to each other, their collaboration on a show of women's handiwork sets in motion a series of events that will help to heal them both in miraculous ways.