num_pages: 235
description: From the 2-time Tony Award-winner and the star of TVs Younger  funny and intimate stories and reflections about how crafting has kept her sane while navigating the highs and lows of family love and show business (and how it can help you too).Whether shes playing an age-defying book editor on television or dazzling audiences on the Broadway stage Sutton Foster manages to make it all look easy. How? Crafting . From the moment she picked up a cross stitch needle to escape the bullying chorus girls in her early performing days she was hooked. Cross stitching led to crocheting crocheting led to collages which led to drawing and so much more. Channeling her emotions into her creations centered Sutton as she navigated the significant moments in her life and gave her tangible reminders of her experiences. Now in this charming and poignant collection Sutton shares those moments including her fraught relationship with her agoraphobic mother; a painful divorce splashed on the pages of the tabloids; her struggles with fertility; the thrills she found on the stage during hit plays like Thoroughly Modern Millie Anything Goes  and Violet ; her breakout TV role in Younger ; and the joy of adopting her daughter Emily. Accompanying the stories Sutton has included crochet patterns recipes and so much more! Witty and poignant Hooked will leave readers entertained as well as inspire them to pick up their own cross stitch needles and paintbrushes.
language: English
title: Hooked: How Crafting Saved My Life
publisher: Grand Central Publishing