Description
Book Synopsis"An intelligent, moving read" (
Pages) and "a testament to women’s friendship and to Ann Hood’s talent" (Hilma Wolitzer).
Trade Review"A wondrously simple book about something complicated: the nearly unendurable process of enduring a great loss. The novel, like knitting, seems to make itself up as it goes along, the threads bound and gathered into a whole." -- Carrie Brown - Washington Post
"Acutely moving…The women’s tragedies unfurl like skeins of yarn rolling down a slope." -- Allison Lynn - People
"A heartbreaker." -- Elissa Schappel - Vanity Fair
"I closed
The Knitting Circle feeling uplifted, even cleansed. I felt as if I were seeing with fresh eyes, ready to forgive old hurts and entertain new thoughts." -- Marion Winik - Newsday
"Powerful and affecting." -- John Marshal - Seattle Post-Intelligencer
"One can only admire Hood for the effort she takes in this book to describe an insupportable grief…Undeniably real. The lesson—that being willing to share our stories, we learn how to live—cannot be dismissed." -- Julie Wittes Schlack - Boston Globe
"[Hood’s] portrait of Mary’s grief is so real and so raw. The unpredictable arc of it…gives Mary’s grief a three-dimensional humanity that a less familiar portraitist might have missed…The prose of
The Knitting Circle is clear, even as Mary’s perspective is clouded by heartbreak, and the pace of the story is just right." -- Beth Schwartzapfel - Providence Journal
"Hood’s words…pull you along, like a knitting pattern, one mesmerizing, settling click at a time, stitch by stitch, row by row, until you find yourself with something solid and real." -- Peggy McMullen - The Oregonian
"This book is rich in sensory detail…This book shines a light on women helping each other and the world one stitch at a time." -- Jan Marin Tramontano - Albany Times Union
