Quilt

1944. Wartime. A six-year-old boy goes to spend the summer with his grandmother Alida in a small town near the Canadian border. With the men all gone off to fight, the women are left to run thefarms. There's plenty for the boy to do-trying to help with the chores, getting to know the dog, and the horses, cows, pigs, and chickens. But when his cousin Kristina goes intolabor, he can't do a thing. Instead, the house fills with women come to help and to wait, and to work on a quilt together. This is no common, everyday quilt, but one that contains all the stories of theboy's family. The quilt tells the truth, past and of happiness, courage, and pain; of the greatest joy, and the greatest loss. And as they wait, the women share these memorable stories with theboy. "From the Hardcover edition."