The Goodbye Quilt

By: Susan Wiggs

Narrated by: Tanya Eby

Linda Davis’s local fabric shop is a place where women gather to share their creations: quilts commemorating important events in their lives. Wedding quilts, baby quilts, memorial quilts - each is bound tight with dreams, hopes, and yearnings.

Now, as her only child readies for college, Linda is torn between excitement for Molly and heartache for herself. Who will she be when she is no longer needed in her role as mom? What will become of her days? Of her marriage?

Mother and daughter decide to share one last adventure together - a cross-country road trip to move Molly into her dorm. As they wend their way through the heart of the country, Linda stitches together the scraps that make up Molly’s young life. And in the quilting of each bit of fabric - the hem of a christening gown, a snippet from a Halloween costume - Linda discovers that the memories of a shared journey can come together in a way that will keep them both warm in the years to come....

©2011 Susan Wiggs (P)2011 Brilliance Audio, Inc.

Don't put off buying this like I did

So, if you kind of had a dysfunctional family upbringing, this is an excellent book to show you what people who are raised in more functional and loving type homes do throughout their life with their children. The ups and downs that we all have, but most of all know we're always a product of who brought us up regardless how hard we try to make changes. We have to remember relationships never end and I believe we choose our parents for lessons we need to learn. And you can rejoice when you most the time make better choices throughout your life, but at the same time embrace you parents for who they are and how they were brought upto give them a little bit more empathy and wiggle room. I definitely am biased about Susan Wiggs writing and all the pearls of wisdom she shares with us. She gets nothing but vibes from me. And she taught me how to love and enjoy historical fiction.

Totally Heatwarming!

This was a wonderful journey to follow along with! As a woman with 3 grown children and 6 grandchildren plus a quilter myself, I could totally relate to her feelings of doubts, joys, and concerns of being a mother.
The reader speaks very well and easy to understand and listen to. I thoroughly enjoyed this story!

very different for Susan Wiggs

I was not sure if I was going to like this book because so much of it was narration. As always, Wiggs tugs on the heart of the reader with her detailed description of emotions.

Rang so true!!!

This book reminded me so closely of my own experience taking my daughter to college. Very genuine and honest - I found myself getting teary eyed at the similarities.

Couldn't bear it past the second chapter

Full disclosure-I was looking for something kind of sad, not too deep. Yikes! This was sad in the writing. Sorry Susan but write what you know and I don't think you do. The daughter is on her way to college and is looking at class choices? Really? A quilt shop still cutting fabric with scissors? Hand quilting an entire bed quilt in the car? Not having a child find out she had a still born sibling before she was 18?
Clearly I could really NOT relate to this book. I found it to be too gooey sweet. If had been written from the teenager's point of view it's lack of depth might have made more sense. It felt very Leave it Beaver era television writing.