The Goodbye Quilt Linda Davis' local fabric shop is a place where women gather to share their creations quilts commemorating important events in their lives. And each is bound tight with dreams and hopes. Now, as her only child prepares for college, Linda is torn between excitement and heartache. Who will she be when she's no longer needed as a mother? Linda and her daughter decide to share one last adventure together a cross-country road trip. As they wind their way through the heart of the country, Linda discovers that the memories of a shared journey can come together in a way that will keep them both warm in the years to come. Home Before Dark As an irresponsible young mother, Jessie Ryder knew she'd never be able to give her newborn the stable family that her older sister could. So Luz and her husband adopted Lila and Jessie became a distant aunt. Sixteen years later, having travelled the world burdened by remorse, Jessie is suspending her photojournalism career to return home even if it means throwing her sister's world into turmoil. Yet the truth can do so much more than just hurt. It can bring you home to a new kind of honesty, shedding its light into the deepest corners of the heart.
Author
Susan Wiggs' life is all about family, friends...and fiction. She lives at the water's edge on an island in Puget Sound, and she commutes to her writers' group in a 17-foot motorboat. She serves as author liaison for Field's End, a literary community on Bainbridge Island, Washington, bringing inspiration and instruction from the world's top authors to her seaside community. (See www.fieldsend.org) She's been featured in the national media, including NPR's "Talk of the Nation," and is a popular speaker locally and nationally. According to Publishers Weekly, Wiggs writes with "refreshingly honest emotion," and the Salem Statesman Journal adds that she is "one of our best observers of stories of the heart [who] knows how to capture emotion on virtually every page of every book." Booklist characterizes her books as "real and true and unforgettable." She is the recipient of three RITA (sm) awards and four starred reviews from Publishers Weekly for her books. The Winter Lodge and Passing Through Paradise have appeared on PW’s annual "Best Of" lists. Several of her books have been listed as top Booksense picks and optioned as feature films. Her novels have been translated into more than two dozen languages and have made national bestseller lists, including the USA Today, Washington Post and New York Times lists. The author is a former teacher, a Harvard graduate, an avid hiker, an amateur photographer, a good skier and terrible golfer, yet her favorite form of exercise is curling up with a good book. Readers can learn more on the web at www.susanwiggs.com and on her lively blog at www.susanwiggs.wordpress.com.
