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Knit Two

by Kate Jacobs

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Synopses & Reviews

Publisher Comments:

The Sequel to the Beloved #1 New York Times Bestseller The Friday Night Knitting Club

The sequel to the number-one New York Times bestseller The Friday Night Knitting Club, KNIT TWO returns to Walker and Daughter, the Manhattan knitting store founded by Georgia Walker and her young daughter, Dakota. Dakota is now an eighteen-year-old freshman at NYU, running the little yarn shop part-time with help from the members of the Friday Night Knitting Club.

Drawn together by the sense of family the club has created, the knitters rely on one another as they struggle with new challenges: for Catherine, finding love after divorce; for Darwin, the hope for a family; for Lucie, being both a single mom and a caregiver for her elderly mother; and for seventysomething Anita, a proposal of marriage from her sweetheart, Marty, that provokes the objections of her grown children.

As the clubas projectsaan afghan, baby booties, a wedding coataare pieced together, so is their understanding of the patterns underlying the stresses and joys of being mother, wife, daughter, and friend. Because it isnat the difficulty of the garment that makes you a great knitter: itas the care and attention you bring to the craftaas well as how you adapt to surprises.

Review:

"Continuing the warm-and-fuzzy saga begun in her popular The Friday Night Knitting Club, Jacobs stitches together another winning tale of the New York City knitting circle, more a sisterhood than a hobby group (the irascible Darwin Chiu can't even really knit). In this installment-and it does feel like an installment-readers catch up five years after the unexpected, book-capping death of club leader (and knitting shop owner Georgia Walker. Georgia's 18-year-old Dakota is at NYU, discovering her first love, while her father James and Georgia's best friend Catherine are still coming to terms. The rest of the cast runs a wide gamut of ages and experience, but is easier to follow this time around, as Jacobs is more comfortable giving them more space and backstory. Pregnant, whip-smart professor Darwin and her husband, Dan, are welcoming twins; video director and single mom Lucie is coping with a hyperactive 5-year-old and a failing parent; Georgia's old mentor, the wise Anita, begins questioning her own motives; and everyone's stories cross paths in satisfying, organic ways. A trip to Italy provides some forward motion, and pays off in a charming denouementthat nevertheless pushes a familiar it's-the-journey-not-the-destination message; still, this sequel is as comforting, enveloping and warm as a well-crafted afghan." Publishers Weekly (Copyright Reed Business Information, Inc.)

Synopsis:

The members of the Friday Night Knitting Club are older and their lives have gone in different directions. Can the members of the club go from their new beginnings--in love, parenthood, careers--to having the experience they need to tackle whatever comes their way?

Product Details

ISBN:
9780399155833
Author:
Jacobs, Kate
Publisher:
Putnam Adult
Subject:
Romance - Contemporary
Subject:
Knitting
Subject:
Mothers and daughters
Subject:
New york (n.y.)
Copyright:
Publication Date:
November 2008
Binding:
Hardcover
Language:
English
Pages:
336
Dimensions:
9.10x6.20x1.30 in. 1.15 lbs.
Age Level:
17-17

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