The Lost Quilter

I would give this book a perfect 10. It is an awesome, heart-wrenching story of Joanna, a young runaway, pregnant slave who has managed to make it to Elm Creek, Pennsylvania, where some sympathetic abolitionist women take her in and hide her until her baby is born. The story takes place in 1859, jus......more

I normally don't like the books in the Elm Creek Quilt series that diverge from the main storyline, but I found myself liking this one. Although I'm ashamed to admit it, I don't remember that much about the main character Joanna in this novel. She had appeared in a previous one but was more a side c......more

A very moving book. I cried at the end for the beauty of it all. This is one of my favorite books in her series. Joanna was a slave who had endured horrific treatment and escaped. As a fugitive, she learned to read while hiding out at a farm in PA. She was captured and separated from her newborn son,......more

My favorite in the series so far. I loved Joanna. The author helped me see the human side of being a slave. When the mistress is shopping, finds herself hungry, and buys roasted nuts, her slave Joanna is hungry, too. But does the mistress offer some to Joanna? Of course not. I recently read that hist......more

I have not read Jennifer Chiaverini before, but I will definitely read her books again. Her book are, I think, all set in civil war times. This one is. It will make you think. It might make you mad. I will surely make you want to love people better. The story is well woven and brings you into the ch......more