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.
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.
