MOTHER AND DAUGHTER, grandmother and granddaughter, aunt and niece, friend and friend. For a hundred years, generations of women from Gee?ÇÖs Bend have quilted together, sharing stories, trading recipes, singing hymns?Çöall the while stitchin?ÇÖ and pullin?ÇÖ thread through cloth. Every day Baby Girl listens, watches, and waits, until she?ÇÖs called to sit at the quilting frame. Piece by piece, she puzzles her quilt together?Çötelling not just her story, but the story of her family, the story of Gee?ÇÖs Bend, and the story of her ancestors?ÇÖ struggle for freedom.From the Hardcover edition.
