Reading the Joy Club by Amy
Tan, was moved by the 'everywomen' quality to that montage of memoirs
of Chinese-American women. Years later, while patching together a
quilt for her bed and thinking about how the quilting bee had become
a literary symbol, suddenly the two images came together. Why not
assemble a book of memoirs of women she knew, using squares of fabric
as the device? She would invite friends of many backgrounds to let
the memory of particular pieces of fabric call up the feelings they
had about incidents in the different stages of their lives. This book
is just that kind of literary quilt.
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