Description
The centennial quilt has been in progress for three years. Each resident of Lakeside Pines contributed a square, and into each square went a piece of personal history: a scrap of wedding dress, a child’s dress collar, a handkerchief that crossed an ocean. The quilt is a record. The problem is that one square tells a story nobody at the colony is supposed to know.
When the quilt is put on display for the colony’s hundredth anniversary celebration and an elderly resident collapses at the sight of one particular panel, the questions begin. Who made that square? What does the image embedded in it depict? And why is one woman so desperate to see it removed from the exhibit before anyone else looks closely?
Quilted Silence is a mystery about memory, inheritance, and the things women embroider into the objects they leave behind.
