{"product_id":"stitching-love-and-loss-lisa-gail-collins-9780295753751","title":"Stitching Love and Loss: A Gee's Bend Quilt","description":"\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eWinner of the 2023 Horowitz Prize by the Bard Graduate Center\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eShortlisted for the 2024 Charles C. Eldredge Prize by the Smithsonian American Art Museum\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA meditation on suffering, resilience, creativity, and grace\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eIn 1942 Missouri Pettway, newly suffering the loss of her husband, pieced together a quilt out of his old, worn work clothes. Nearly six decades later her daughter Arlonzia Pettway, approaching eighty at the time and a seasoned quiltmaker herself, readily recalled the cover made by her grieving mother within the small African American farming community of Gee's Bend, Alabama.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAt once a story of grief, a quilt, and a community, \u003ci\u003eStitching Love and Loss \u003c\/i\u003econnects Missouri Pettway's cotton covering to the history of a place, its residents, and the work of mourning. Interpreting varied sources of history and memory, Lisa Gail Collins engages crucial and enduring questions, simultaneously singular and shared: What are the languages, practices, and processes of mourning? How is loss expressed and remembered? What are the roles for creativity in grief? And how might a closely crafted material object, in its conception, construction, use, and memory, serve the work of grieving a loved one? Placing this singular quilt within its historical and cultural context, Collins illuminates the perseverance and creativity of the African American women quilters in this rural Black Belt community.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Lisa Gail Collins\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0295753757\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780295753751\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Washington Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/04\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 200\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.59d","brand":"Lisa Gail Collins","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46431571706111,"sku":"9780295753751","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_96a92bbc-e462-4050-97b4-8a9df627b816.jpg?v=1735141737","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/stitching-love-and-loss-lisa-gail-collins-9780295753751","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}