Synopsis
Urged at the age of eighteen to marry a man she doesn't want, Nell delays the event by working on a quilt, slowly starving herself, and observing the unhappy lot of many women in turn-of-the century Massachusetts before arriving at a decision to rescue herself from the brink of death and take charge of her life.Yearning to attend college and work for the women's suffrage movement, eighteen-year-old Nell feels trapped by her parents' inability to manage the farm without her and seeks refuge in the creation of a quilt, in a story set at the turn of the century
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A riveting drama about a young woman about to be forced into marriage by her parents, who believe her only choices in life center around the quilt she's stitching and how much she eatsuntil she almost dies. Ages 12-up.
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Point October 1988, 1988
ISBN 10: 0590419145
ISBN 13: 9780590419147
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