This collection of poems that tell the story of the quilt-making community in Gee’s Bend, Alabama, is now available as a Dragonfly paperback.
For generations, the women of Gee’s Bend have made quilts to keep a family warm, as a pastime accompanied by sharing and singing, or to memorialize loved ones. Today, the same quilts hang on museum walls as modern masterpieces of color and design. Inspired by these quilts and the women who made them, award-winning author Patricia C. McKissack traveled to Alabama to learn their stories. The lyrical rite-of-passage narrative that is the result of her journey seamlessly weaves together the familial, cultural, spiritual, and historical strands of life in this community.
- ISBN10 0399549501
- ISBN13 9780399549502
- Publish Date 4 October 2016 (first published 28 October 2008)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Dragonfly Books
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 48
- Language English
- URL https://penguinrandomhouse.com/books/isbn/9780399549502