Edie Ayala

Threads (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

THREADS is a story of shared resilience and redemption. One woman has a remarkable gift, another woman desperately needs one, and the two are unwittingly connected by a man in the middle.

After a tragic loss, a mother seeks consolation by knitting hundreds of magnificent little sweaters. When one of the sweaters is inadvertently shipped to Chile, it's stolen by a poverty-stricken single woman, who creatively repurposes it.

Irene's life in a privileged neighborhood of small town Canada is all going according to plan. But when she loses a child to sudden infant death, she is unable to cope. But then, she rediscovers the familiar joy and comfort of knitting. So she begins. The problem is that she never stops, and in her obsession, she knits and hoards a series of extraordinary children's sweaters.

Seeking to end it, her husband finally donates the sweaters to a charity. While most of the sweaters are sold locally, one of them is inadvertently shipped off to Chile where Columba, a single mother who works at a used clothing depot, steals it. Columba is also struggling with the loss of a child, albeit in entirely different circumstances. But like Irene, she finds solace in the little sweater. And besides, if she hadn't rescued it, it would have languished amidst the tons of North American garbage that is routinely dumped in the used clothing cemetery of the Atacama Desert. The sweater isn't the only thing Columba steals but it's the most magnificent. Eventually, her thievery is discovered and she must find another way to survive.

Back in Canada, Irene's sweaters are sold through a boutique and they become a hot itemto the point where they give rise to a local sweater cult. But when Irene spies her sweaters in the store window and then sees strange children wearing them on the street, she's outraged. She begins to steal them back and it all gets very out of hand. Meanwhile, in Chile, Columba is so grateful for the miraculous little sweater that she conceives a way to share its mystical powers with her neighbors.

Sprinkled with magic realism and humor, this multi-narrative story exposes cultural differences, social inequities and global environmental damage caused by hyper-consumerism. But it's really about two women in search of consolation and our shared humanity.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Stories with Character
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Februar 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780988003217
• Artikelnr.: 63759702

Autorenporträt

"Our stories are our most valuable asset. They define us. They are our legacy."

Edie Ayala is a baby boomer from a small logging town in British Columbia. As a girl, she once broke into a neighbour's house to play on their typewriter. She was the creative fort-builder, the abandoned mine-shaft explorer and the tree climber. She has never lost this spirit of curiosity and the search for the small things that might change a day... or a life.

Just before Y2K, she made a trip to South America and it was a turning point. Married to a Chilean from the Atacama region, they decided to make Santiago, Chile their home and they've been there ever since. Their grown children are all settled in different cities in Canada and the UK.

Edie writes character-driven novels. Her first, South of Centre is a saga sent in nothern Chile in and around the time of the Pinochet regime. With all of its myths and superstitions, it seeks to get to the bottom of various tangled family relationships. The second Hard Bed Hotel is a humorous love story where confusion between the living and the dead takes you on an eventful romp through Santiago's more 'popular' neighborhoods. Her third novel, Threads takes a hard look at the global business of fast fashion. Two women on opposite ends of the globe are connected through love and loss.