{"product_id":"red-threads-and-silver-linings-adele-evershed-9798952428065","title":"Red Threads and Silver Linings: A Woman's Life in Haiku, One Bloody Drop at a Time","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eRed Threads and Silver Linings\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e is a haiku exploration of the female lifecycle, tracing womanhood through the intimate terrain of the body. Inspired partly by Jaques' \"All the world's a stage\" speech in \u003cem\u003eAs You Like It\u003c\/em\u003e, Evershed moves through menarche, puberty, menstruation, fertility, conception, miscarriage, pregnancy, childbirth, postpartum life, motherhood, menopause, and aging. Her short-form poetry illuminates the quiet power, vulnerability, and resilience held within the body's cycles.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe collection catalogues the blood that marks each stage of women's biological lives - periods, miscarriages, birthing blood - threading these experiences to seasonal change, the moon's rhythm, and nature's wider cycles. The \"red threads\" are crimson tides, blossoming flowers, the blood moon: metaphors for menarche's first shock, miscarriage's sadness, labor's endurance, and postpartum's complexity. The \"silver linings\" gather later pleasures - reblooming azaleas, HRT's sticky petals, a bruised peach scented with second chances. Grief and loss coexist here with endurance, humor, desire, and deepening self-knowledge.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOrganized into sections like \u003cem\u003eIt's Just a Period She's Going Through\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eChildbirth and Other Horrors\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eAn Old Wife's Tale\u003c\/em\u003e, the book blends the personal with the mythical, the natural world with the biological. Daughters and mothers share pages with ghosts of earlier selves and ancestral echoes. Through haiku's precision, the result is a map of womanhood both grounded and lyrical.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt once meditation and celebration, the collection offers poems that are tender, raw, and unflinchingly honest - honoring the shifting landscape of a woman's life from girlhood's first flush to menopause's soft letting-go, and the humanity found in every bleed, every change, every reckoning of living in a woman's body.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e---\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAdvance Acclaim: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAdele Evershed's book \u003cem\u003eRed Threads and Silver Linings\u003c\/em\u003e is a brave collection of haiku deeply rooted in a woman's experience and yet reaches far beyond it. Who hasn't had a secret or a loss that no one else could know or see; a moment when the body seemed to know something before the mind did? Adele lets us enter these moments through haiku without ever becoming overly sentimental. The girl who hides her first secret in a white towel grows into the woman who origamis into a stork. From mourning what might have been in \" a ghost apple\/no longer hanging on\/in my womb\" to learning to live inside an ever-changing body, she eventually sees herself reflected in her daughter, and Adele dedicating this book to her daughter Megan makes it personal and intimate.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese poems are honest. A bathroom incinerator, an ultrasound picture taken off the fridge, a mammogram, a sneeze, a handful of ashes --- in these ordinary moments, love, grief, embarrassment and resilience quietly blend.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eRed Threads and Silver Linings \u003c\/em\u003ereminds us that life is so much more than in the good days. It is also about the days we bleed, wait, lose, heal, begin again and keep going. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese poems will be appreciated not only by women, but by anyone who has watched someone they love, move through the quiet milestones that are rarely spoken about. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eVandana Parashar\u003c\/strong\u003e, Editor, \u003cem\u003ePoetry Pea\u003c\/em\u003e; Associate Editor, \u003cem\u003ehaikuKATHA\u003c\/em\u003e; International Women's Month Editor, #\u003cem\u003eFemkuMag\u003c\/em\u003e; Author of \u003cem\u003eI Am\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eAlone, I Am Not;\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eA\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003eCall's Loon\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Adele Evershed\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798952428065\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Prolific Pulse Press LLC\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/20\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 88\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.45lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.61h x 6.69w x 0.24d","brand":"Adele Evershed","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":50666337960191,"sku":"9798952428065","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_200a8828-d282-48fc-8897-202258fb9266.jpg?v=1792016914","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/red-threads-and-silver-linings-adele-evershed-9798952428065","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}