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The Friday Night Knitting Club (Friday Night Knitting Club #1)
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An interesting portrayal of an assortment of women living in Manhattan and drawn together in various ways to a small, privately-owned yarn shop which seems to spontaneously spawn a Friday Night Knitting Club. Every character is unconventional. Is this because it's New York, a novel or because there are no more 'ordinary'* families left in America? One wonders...
The language and situations leave something to be desired. Also, whereas previous generations of women ran into each other at the well, river, ‘Red Tent’, church social, mall or most recently the work-out studio, now young women have to worry about seeing their friends and neighbors at Planned Parenthood—and for a variety of different reasons. Well at least they do in The Friday Night Knitting Club. Times change.
Parts of TFNKC touched me deeply, especially the character of Anita. The description of her mourning her beloved spouse, Stan, dead ten years had me in tears and reaching over to touch my own dear husband. Another particularly moving scene was when Georgia's mother unexpectedly came to visit her in the hospital; they had a long history of a strained and difficult relationship which it took Georgia a long time to realise she had partially caused.
Other parts of the book which dealt with more dramatic situations, however, failed to move me in the same way. Although life and death issues were an undercurrent of the book, God was most frequently a word of exclamation and not a person, force nor meaningful part of any of the character's lives. I suppose this may be true for groups of women in New York (and elsewhere) who come together, love and support each other in true altruism and goodness, but I have trouble believing it.
Clever "knitting" together of crafting techniques with relationship themes. Entertaining.
* Or 'typical' or whatever politically correct word is appropriate these days.
The language and situations leave something to be desired. Also, whereas previous generations of women ran into each other at the well, river, ‘Red Tent’, church social, mall or most recently the work-out studio, now young women have to worry about seeing their friends and neighbors at Planned Parenthood—and for a variety of different reasons. Well at least they do in The Friday Night Knitting Club. Times change.
Parts of TFNKC touched me deeply, especially the character of Anita. The description of her mourning her beloved spouse, Stan, dead ten years had me in tears and reaching over to touch my own dear husband. Another particularly moving scene was when Georgia's mother unexpectedly came to visit her in the hospital; they had a long history of a strained and difficult relationship which it took Georgia a long time to realise she had partially caused.
Other parts of the book which dealt with more dramatic situations, however, failed to move me in the same way. Although life and death issues were an undercurrent of the book, God was most frequently a word of exclamation and not a person, force nor meaningful part of any of the character's lives. I suppose this may be true for groups of women in New York (and elsewhere) who come together, love and support each other in true altruism and goodness, but I have trouble believing it.
Clever "knitting" together of crafting techniques with relationship themes. Entertaining.
* Or 'typical' or whatever politically correct word is appropriate these days.
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