Dropped threads 2: more of what we aren't told

✍ Scribed by Carol Shields

• Book ID: 100234658
• Publisher: Random House of Canada;Vintage Canada
• Year: 2003;2010
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 180 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN: 0679312064

✦ Synopsis

The idea for Dropped Threads: What We Aren't Told came up between Carol Shields and longtime friend Marjorie Anderson over lunch. It appeared that after decades of feminism, the "women's network" still wasn't able to prevent women being caught off-guard by life. There remained subjects women just didn't talk about, or felt they couldn't talk about. Holes existed in the fabric of women's discourse, and they needed examining.

They asked thirty-four women to write about moments in life that had taken them by surprise or experiences that received too little discussion, and then they compiled these pieces into a book. It became an instant number one bestseller, a book clubs' favourite and a runaway success. Dropped Threads , says Anderson, "tapped into a powerful need to share personal stories about life's defining moments of surprise and silence." Readers recognized themselves in these honest and intimate stories; there was something universal in these deeply...