Skip to main content
PBS logo
 
 

Search - Patchwork

Patchwork
Patchwork
Author: Ila Yount
Nola, on her hundredth birthday, recounts the story of her parents, who moved to a North Carolina mountain to start a new life together.
Info icon
ISBN-13: 9780934395458
ISBN-10: 0934395454
Publication Date: 7/1987
Pages: 216
Rating:
  • Currently 3.8/5 Stars.
 2

3.8 stars, based on 2 ratings
Publisher: Rutledge Hill Press
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
Reviews: Member | Amazon | Write a Review
Read All 2 Book Reviews of "Patchwork"

Please Log in to Rate these Book Reviews

reviewed Patchwork on + 22 more book reviews
In the 1800's Will and Ellen Johnston moved to Carolina side of the mountain along the border between North Carolina and Tennessee. This is their family story, as told by their oldest daughter, Nola, on her 100th birthday. This book relates a pioneer family's trials and tribulations and is filled with mountain folklore, family history, and exciting adventures.
Cissy33 avatar reviewed Patchwork on + 11 more book reviews
In the early ninteenth century Will and Ellen Johnston moved to "the Carolina side of the mountain" along the border between North Carolina and Tennessee. Patchwork is their family story, a tale that could be told in every generation. Two young people meet, marry, and set off to build their dreams. They work hard, raise a family, experience joy and sorrow, and watch their children set off into the world on their own.

Patchwork is also the story of a mountain family in the early ninteenth century in which folk medicine, superstition, and the conflicts of human experience are sewn together in a style as homespun as the mountain quilts that serve as the metaphor for the book.


Genres: