When you're in your late twenties and nothing in your life seems to be
falling into place, knitting is an awfully seductive way to spend your
free time -- especially when life doesn't come with a stitch
counter.
Kathleen, Sari, and Lucy's Sunday knitting circle is the only thing
holding them together. Kathleen has been cut off financially by her
family and forced to enter the real world for the very first time. Sari
has fallen for the man who made her life a living hell in high school,
but now desperately needs her help. Lucy, torn between emotion and
reason, must reevaluate her life when her lab and her boyfriend are
assailed by an animal-rights group.
At their club meetings, they discuss the really important questions: how
bad is it, really, to marry for money if you like the guy a lot anyway?
Can you ever forgive someone for something truly atrocious that they've
done? Is it better to be unhappily coupled than happily alone? And the
little ones: Can you wear a bra with a hand-knit tube top? Is it ever
acceptable to knit something for a boyfriend? And why do your stitches
become lopsided after your second martini?
In Claire LaZebnik's hilarious and sometimes heartbreaking novel, Sari,
Lucy, and Kathleen's lives intersect, overlap, unravel, and come back
together in an utterly satisfying read.
