"The Threadbare Heart is exquisite. I was riveted to the many hairpin turns in Nash’s lovely prose, and having just finished reading, feel both the trauma and comfort of a deeply felt and written novel." • Luanne Rice • Bestselling Novelist

"Jennie Nash gets all the details right: the quirky obsession of fabric hoarders who dream of the possibilities woven into a piece of cloth, the smell and panic of southern California brush fire season, and the roller coaster ride we call marriage.The Threadbare Heart may do more than "Project Runway" to bring sewing machines out of storage." • Kitty Felde • KPCC (NPR) Washington Correspondent

"With The Threadbare Heart, Jennie Nash has accomplished the extraordinary: a quietly profound novel about the many jagged, heart-wrenching, transcendent ways one person can love another. The story of Lily and Tom stayed with me long after the last page was turned." • Hope Edelman • The Possibility of Everything

"Following multiple characters through the intricacies of love, grief, and desire, Jennie Nash writes with honesty and simple grace about the most complex human emotions." • Laura Brodie • The Widow’s Season

The Threadbare Heart is a love story inspired by my mother’s recent marriage to a man she met on the same blind date where she met my dad, 54 years ago. It’s a mother-daughter story, as well. Readers of my last book, The Only True Genius in the Family, won’t be surprised to hear that the mother-daughter relationship is fraught with jealousy and tension. This time, however, I really amped it up. At the same time that a daughter loses the great love of her life, her mother — a woman in her mid-70s — gains the great love of her own. In the midst of all this, a prized piece of fabric, which the daughter has been saving for more than 40 years, is the last thing saved from a house destroyed by wildfire. That piece of fabric becomes the bridge between a mother and a daughter torn apart by grief, jealousy and misunderstanding. -- Jennie Nash

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