The sugar camp quilt
Subtitle: an Elm Creek quilts novel
By: Jennifer Chiaverini
Edition: 1st Simon & Schuster pbk. ed.
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Paperbacks
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 306
ISBN-13: 9780743260190
Copyright date: 2005
Subjects: Fiction; Women pioneers; Quiltmakers; Quilting; Maple sugar industry
Description: Set in Creek's Crossing, Pennsylvania, in the years leading up to the Civil War, the novel follows Dorothea Granger's passage from innocence to wisdom against the harrowing backdrop of the American struggle over slavery. She discovers that a quilt she has stitched for her uncle Jacob with five unusual patterns of his own design contains hidden clues to guide runaway slaves along the Underground Railroad. The heroic journey she undertakes leads to revelations about her own courage and resourcefulness--newfound qualities that may win her the heart of the best man she has ever known.