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The Goodbye Quilt

by Susan Wiggs (Goodreads Author)

3.47 of 5 stars 3.47 · rating details · 1,282 ratings · 285 reviews

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...more

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Published March 29th 2011 by Mira

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Mar 13, 2013 Sharon Lippincott rated it 3 of 5 stars

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Any mother of a daughter will find something to relate to in this sweet, introspective novel. The primary setting is the ancient family Suburban station wagon as mother and daughter travel from western Wyoming to some undisclosed top-notch university near Norman Rockefeller’s home in Massachusetts. Linda Davis’s daughter Molly, an only child, was awarded a full scholarship to this august institution, but is torn at having to leave Trevor, her first true love, who is a union worker in the log hom...more Any mother of a daughter will find something to relate to in this sweet, introspective novel. The primary setting is the ancient family Suburban station wagon as mother and daughter travel from western Wyoming to some undisclosed top-notch university near Norman Rockefeller’s home in Massachusetts. Linda Davis’s daughter Molly, an only child, was awarded a full scholarship to this august institution, but is torn at having to leave Trevor, her first true love, who is a union worker in the log home factory in their small community.

Half the book consists of Linda’s internal narrative. She alternates debating the wisdom of speaking to Molly or telling her personal stories versus biting her tongue. with reflecting back on memories, hopes and dreams, most of which are not shared, to avoid making Molly feel pressured about her own situation (or giving her further ammunition for debating her cause). When she isn’t fretting about Molly’s future and her relationship with Trevor, Linda grapples with the issue of how she will build a new life for herself now that Molly has left, how she will connect in new ways with her husband Dan and the fate of her favorite quilting shop.

Most of the reflections are prompted by pieces of the “Goodbye” memory quilt Linda works on as Molly drives. It is intended as a memento of Molly’s girlhood, and Linda has resolved to finish the quilting and final embellishments during the six days of travel.

Wiggs did a masterful job of writing Linda real. Real women do obsess that way. They do make decisions to hide or reveal personal stories. They do feel knives turn in their souls when, for example, they must tell the rest of the story behind why they didn’t have more children. They do bite their tongues off to avoid setting off a young and arrogant daughter who knows absolutely everything at age 18. And they don’t generally talk about all these things. I loved that aspect of the book.

What Wiggs did not do at all well was write the trip real. Things simply do not square with the actual route they had to have taken. On one page she may describe changing lanes and moving along Interstate ramps, but a few pages later they’ll be in a situation that could only take place on country lanes. Then they are seamlessly, without explanation, back on the Interstate. She speaks of it being “a hundred miles to the next city” when they are driving through a mid-western state. They made a lunch stop at a state park on the shore of Lake Ontario. That would be at least fifty miles each direction out of their way.

Wiggs is obviously not a serious quilter. Neither am I, but I do know that you don’t casually stitch several word thoughts onto a quilt in about the time it would take to write them with a pen, and I do know that you don’t constantly pick up and put down a twin bed-sized quilt. It would be filthy if it were dragged around as she did, clumsy to work on in the car and park benches, and hard to control tiny stitches in a moving car.

I’m disappointed when popular, high-volume authors are cavalier with facts. At least the book was well edited, with no typos or layout errors. In spite of her disregard for the factual aspect of her craft, I love the heart of her story, and people who either know nothing about geography or easily grant creative license to heartwarming authors will love this book without hesitation.

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Aug 04, 2011 Ns rated it 2 of 5 stars

The Goodbye Quilt details the meaning of motherhood for one woman; of what it means to love, to sacrifice, to let go and to believe. A scrap of fabric here -memories, a thread there -wisdom, each knot -hope and dreams, make up the tangible pieces of the quilt. For Linda Davis, making the quilt is as much a therapeutic process, as it is a piecing together of her life.

Linda is about to see her only daughter off to college, in another town, another time zone even. As she readies for this momentous...more

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Mar 30, 2013 Connie N. rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: chick-lit, relationships

I guess I would rate this 3.5 if I could. It started out very slow as we got to know the mother and daughter and discovered why they are driving cross country together. This is the story of their relationship and how it grows and changes as they take a final trip together before Molly goes off to college on the East Coast. The implication is that she got accepted into a high class college due to her hard work and good grades. The daughter is having second thoughts because of having to leave her...more

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May 12, 2012 Sarah rated it 5 of 5 stars

Linda, a quilter, bemoans the closing of her local quilt store, which coincides with her only child going away to college. During the four-day drive across the country to her daughter's prestigious east coast university, she works on the finishing touches to her "goodbye quilt," lovingly crafted from scraps of fabric salvaged from many years worth of cast-off family clothing and other memorabilia. While Linda has planned the quilt as a patchwork of events mapping her daughter's life thus far, ul...more

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Jan 28, 2012 Felicia rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: 2011-read

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This is one of those books that I can't break down in my normal review method without giving anything away. So I am going to use my quick review method because I think it will do the book more justice.

The Goodbye Quilt is a very sweet and heartwarming book that will tug at every heartstring you have! I think in some ways this book will touch any woman who reads it. You can't help but see yourself in some of the situations and laugh/cry/giggle several times whil...more

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Dec 30, 2011 Tamhack rated it 2 of 5 stars

this was a story about a woman trying to define and find the next path in her life after her daughter goes off to college. It ties her life into a quilt that she is trying to complete for her daughter to use in her daughter's dorm room. She thought she was making the quilt for her daughter and helping her daughter find the next direction or step in her life but.....
"You can always tell what's going on in a woman's life based not he quilts she's working on. The new-baby quilts are always light an...more this was a story about a woman trying to define and find the next path in her life after her daughter goes off to college. It ties her life into a quilt that she is trying to complete for her daughter to use in her daughter's dorm room. She thought she was making the quilt for her daughter and helping her daughter find the next direction or step in her life but.....
"You can always tell what's going on in a woman's life based not he quilts she's working on. The new-baby quilts are always light and soft, the wedding quilts pure and clean, filled with tradition, as though a beautiful design might be an inoculation against future strife. Housewarming quilts tend to be artistic, suitable for hanging on an undecorated wall. The most lovingly created quilts of all are the memory quilts, often created as a group project to commemorate a significant event, help with healing or to celebrate a life. I've always thought a quilt held together with a woman's tears to be the strongest of all.'

The goal of all parents:
" Her spirit, her self-assurance and independence, are the sort of wonderful qualities a mother wants in her daughter. My goal was always to raise a child capable of making judgements on her own. Teaching her has always been a joyous process, while actually seeing her go off in her own direction is intensely bittersweet. Adulthood, I suppose, is the final exam to see which lessons she absorbed."

"when you're married you don't get to be let in, not to everything."

"A scattershot woman, you might call me, aiming myself in different directions, my only true calling that of loving my family."

"These will be a reminder of the cyclical nature of families, the comings and goings of generations. They say a child leaves home in phases. She is weaned."

"From my perspective at the other end of childhood, I want to tell the young mother what I know now--that when a child is little, the days roll by at a leaden pace, blurring together. You're like a cartoon character, blithely, oblivious while crossing a precarious wooden bridge, never knowing it's on fire behind you, burning away as you go. Sure, everybody says to enjoy your kids while they're little, because they'll be grown before you know it, but nobody ever really believes it. The woman at the next table simply wouldn't see the bridge, see time eating up."

"I once read in a book somewhere that the way you spend your day is the way you spend your life."

"I came to understand that there is no such thing as a perfect life, just a constant shifting, like the wind on the lake. You adjust your sails to catch the wind, both the other way around."

"Because I learned long ago that happiness is not one long, continuous state of being. Like life itself, happiness is made up of moments. Some are fleeting, lasting no longer that the length of a sweet song, yet the sum total of those moments
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Aug 13, 2011 Laurie rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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Aug 10, 2011 Trish rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: favorite-fiction

I absolutely loved this little book! The Goodbye Quilt is a heartwarming story that also makes you think about yourself, as a wife and mother, and as a person. What is especially wonderful is that it does so without being preachy or pedantic.

Since I have started blogging about each book I read, I have found myself reading with a part of my mind on my review. I will notice particular things that strike me as especially good or bad, and will find myself stopping at particularly quotable sentences...more

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Jul 24, 2011 Ellie Revert rated it 3 of 5 stars

Very much liked this story! Having an only child, a daughter, made it very easy to slip into the story---the drive to take her to college---and what else of life will the mom have? Very recognizable. When Annette left for college, Brent had me go along with him on all his flts---so I would avoid any possible "empty nest syndrome"........it was a fabulous idea! We had a great time--and I learned so much. 33 hr layover in Jacksonville with Hank Kerr---alligator canapes---so unique--4 mos later, Ha...more

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Jun 16, 2011 Glenajo rated it 4 of 5 stars

If you are in the process of sending a child off to college, absolutely, do not read The Goodbye Quiltby Susan Wiggs. You will drown in tears. This story is from the mother’s point of view as she takes her only child across the country, to college. Linda relinquished her dream of college after marrying Dan and giving birth to Molly, focusing her life on Molly. Still, through the years, she picks up many hobbies, settling on quilting as her favorite. Now the quilt shop appears to be closing, and...more

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May 04, 2011 Marcia Berg Haskell rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: woman-to-woman, modern-life

"Linda Davis’ 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 shar...more

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Apr 26, 2011 Laurie Little-Watkins rated it 5 of 5 stars

Linda and Dan met when they were young at a bar. Shortly after meeting they married. A short while later, along came their beautiful daughter Molly. Linda put off her college education so she could be a full time Mommy. She decided her child needed her then and she would later finish her schooling. That time never came. Linda was very protective of her daughter, as most mothers are. Somewhat overbearing at times. She constantly made suggestions on what Molly should do, she was more of the ogress...more Linda and Dan met when they were young at a bar. Shortly after meeting they married. A short while later, along came their beautiful daughter Molly. Linda put off her college education so she could be a full time Mommy. She decided her child needed her then and she would later finish her schooling. That time never came. Linda was very protective of her daughter, as most mothers are. Somewhat overbearing at times. She constantly made suggestions on what Molly should do, she was more of the ogress in the book, whereas Dan was the one who let her sway him. If Molly didn't want to do something and Dan was there to let her have her way, they were off to get ice cream instead of the task at hand. Hoover was Molly's lifelong buddy, they grew up together and had a special relationship. Throughout the story Molly grows up and is getting ready to head to college out of the area. Travis is Molly's boyfriend and naturally in love with Molly. He tried everything is his power to convince her that she should just stay in their town and college there locally. However, Molly was already accepted into another out of state. Growing up and leaving home is one of the most memorable tasks that a child will do. At 18 it is time to start you own life, learn your own lessons create your own goals and take what you learned from your parents and do with it what is right. However, saying goodbye is never easy. Molly and her mother decide to make one more memmory before she is off to college. She and her mother will drive there and enjoy the girl time they have left. Linda is in the process of making a quilt with articles of childhood cloth from special occassions. She hand stitched this quilt and was giving it to her daughter for a going away present. A lot of love, sweat, blood, and tears went into the making of it. Molly is the regular teenager who wants to be on her own and mother just does not want to let go. She is afraid of the empty nest she will be coming home to. She feels that all she has done her entire life is raise her child. Now it is time for them both to start a new chapter in their lives. Travis interferes by flying halfway to the final destination to give one last attempt at changing her mind. The decision is hers to make. Every mother always wants better for her child than what she had. That is a maternal instinct. Quilting is a favorite pasttime of Linda's although the shop is due to close down or be sold soon. When she returns to her husband and Hoover their lives will be different, starting over again. What will she do to cope? What will Molly do? Will each of them make the right decision? Where does Travis fit in to all this? Dan is a very loving, laid back, strong on the outside man. If you have a heart and like to read touching family stories with a true message, you should not pass this book up. It is a very easy read. Not fast past, just page after page of the way life is and letting go when it is time. Susan Wiggs always makes it a point to teach us something special in her work. I have not been let down yet. ( )

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Apr 10, 2011 Cheryl rated it 3 of 5 stars

Linda Davis can not believe her grown daughter; Molly is heading off to college. Linda does not want Molly to leave. Linda is not ready to say goodbye to Molly, so instead she decides to drop Molly off at college. Linda also comes up with the idea of making a heritage quilt for Molly as a keepsake. Linda and Molly head off for an adventure that they will never forget.

The Goodbye Quilt is a heart-warming, sweet, fun, quick read. This book is the perfect weekend read. Mothers and Daughters can re...more

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Mar 28, 2011 Vicky rated it 5 of 5 stars

Linda Davis and her daughter, Molly, are driving across the country on their way to drop Molly off at college. Their road trip is supposed to be a final mother/daughter bonding before the break that will launch Molly into a new world and new experiences. While on the trip, in order to pass the hours, Linda works on a quilt for Molly. It is made up of scraps from her life; pieces of material that encapsulate every important-and not-so-important-time in Molly's past. What Linda doesn't count on is...more

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Mar 27, 2011 Ruth rated it 5 of 5 stars

Sometimes I will say about a book "It was exactly what I expected when I picked it up" and when I picked up this Susan Wiggs novel, I pretty much figured that even if I didn't say that in this review, I would be able to. I was wrong. Instead of a book that was a sweet pleasant afternoon diversion I got a book that touched my heart. Maybe it is because like Linda, I have a child on the cusp of adulthood (though unlike her, I have a six year old, and many more years of motherhood to go).

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Jun 21, 2011 Meagan rated it 2 of 5 stars

Shelves: book_club, fiction

This book is chock full of hand-wringing emotion and tearful nostalgia as a mother prepares to send her child off to college. You know...the mother gazes tenderly at her little lamb, all grown up, while in her mind's eye she sees those childhood moments with their rosy, golden glow. So if that's your thing, this is a goldmine. Unfortunately for me, it's not my thing. I felt like the author didn't have anything new to say about the moment when a child takes the first big step toward becoming an i...more

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May 26, 2011 Jodi rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: read-in-2011

I wasn't a huge fan of this book. There was a lot of raw emotion in the book, which I liked. I just am not in a place were I really related to either character right now. Its been almost 15 years since I started college so while I recognized the excitement and fear in Molly as she prepared to go to college, it has just been a bit too long since I've been there myself. I wanted to relate to the mother in the story more but when I don't have kids it was a little hard to relate to it.

I do think th...more

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Apr 17, 2012 Velvetink rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: fiction, craft-sewing-etc

About novella length. About a woman coming to terms with her daughter leaving home to go to college. One of those "feel good moralistic" stories with almost perfect families. May be of interest to quilters - there is a small pattern for a quilt at the end the one the mother is quilting through the story. Reminded me of a short story in a women's magazine. Pleasant but not great. Something to read while waiting for a train that doesn't require too much thought.

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Jul 23, 2011 Joanne rated it 5 of 5 stars

Linda is bringing her only child Molly to college on the East Coast from Wyoming. Along the trip she is trying to finish a quilt for Molly’s dorm. It’s like a crazy quilt (which I have done and enjoyed!) with material pieces and embellishments taken from articles that represent something of Molly’s life. As Linda is working on the quilt she flashes back to fond family memories and sentimental times. The story also follows their adventures driving cross country and deals with Molly’s decision ab...more

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Apr 22, 2011 Kristen rated it 1 of 5 stars

Shelves: 2011, novel

I'm hovering between a 1 & a 2 on this thing.

On the one hand it has a nice little commonplace experience -- only child leaving the nest/mother freaking out. I liked that. The story was "everyday boring", but touching too.

The typos bugged me (okay there were only two but still - I spent a good hour puzzling over "silver thumbring"). BUT the biggest jarring problem for me reading this book is that I grew up in Southwestern Wyoming. I know all about the area and I know that the author doesn't....more I'm hovering between a 1 & a 2 on this thing.

On the one hand it has a nice little commonplace experience -- only child leaving the nest/mother freaking out. I liked that. The story was "everyday boring", but touching too.

The typos bugged me (okay there were only two but still - I spent a good hour puzzling over "silver thumbring"). BUT the biggest jarring problem for me reading this book is that I grew up in Southwestern Wyoming. I know all about the area and I know that the author doesn't.

She puts the home town of this mother and daughter near the interstate. The only interstate in Wyoming is I-80 and it is in the southern part of the state, so Pinedale, which I might have accepted as the setting is out. She also makes log home manufacturing and tile making the big industries. There are no trees in southwestern Wyoming. There are a some in the Uinta mountain range and you would pull them out through the Bridger Valley if you were going to bring them out. But the big industry of the area is extraction of mineral or mining. They don't log ( not enough to call it an industry of the area) or build log houses (one showroom in Rock Springs does not a log home manufacturing plant make.) But fine I'll pretend that the logging in that happens in the Bridger Valley could be a log home manufacturing plant.

I'll pretend that the lake she says freezes over is a lake not a reservoir. (This is the high desert people, not much water that isn't stopped by a dam is around.) I'll suspend disbelief and accept there might actually be a tricky intersection near the interstate on ramp. I'll pretend like it is really going to be a possible thing for someone to commute home from college every week from Laramie to Lyman/Ft Bridger. People do, it is only 4 hours after all and who thinks about the blowing snow and ice on I-80? But really a true quilter who knows anything about Wyoming, knows that you are not going to find specialty quilting thread in Rock Springs!

Yesterday I finished another book with a ficticious setting (Pecan Springs) in a real place (Texas), but that author, Susan Albert Wittig, has told people from the beginning of her series that Pecan Springs is not a real place. Yet she does bring in actual places to surround Pecan Springs. New Braunfuls and San Marcos are as I remember from living in Texas. I wish the same was true about no name town in Wyoming.(less)

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Dec 07, 2012 Linda rated it 5 of 5 stars

Here's a sweet little book to help pass the time if you're in bed with the flu or traveling. The author has a pleasant, descriptive style and knows a lot about quilting and ladies who quilt. This is the story of a mother learning to let her daughter go -- go off to college, have a boyfriend, make her own decisions. As close as the two have been, it's hard for both to break out of their comfort zone and be just themselves. Disagreements, silences, and shared adventures ensue during the thousand-m...more

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Apr 08, 2011 Mary rated it 5 of 5 stars

Linda Davis and her daughter Molly, are driving together to take Molly to college. This story follows their trip and all the emotions that Linda feels along the way. This is such a lovely, heartfelt, heart-wrenching novel. Only a mother could write these words because she knows the depths of love that is such a part of motherhood. This book touched so close to home for me because my daughter recently moved across the country and the feeling of loss is a hard thing to deal with. We do raise our c...more

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Mar 29, 2011 Elizabeth Wiggs rated it 5 of 5 stars

Granted, I have more than a little in common with Molly (okay, in case you don't recognize my name, Susan Wiggs is my mom and the daughter in the book was based on me - right down to being a snarky little a-hole to her mother sometimes). But even if my mom hadn't written this book, I would have been touched by it. Her tale of a mother and daughter parting ways rings so true, probably because she wrote her first draft when she was driving me to college. The emotions and conflicts faced by both Li...more

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Jun 02, 2011 Lisa rated it 3 of 5 stars

This could be total treacle but it isn't. Linda drives cross-country from Wyoming to take her daughter Molly to a private university in "the East." During the trip she tries to finish a memory quilt for Molly to keep with her at college, and the fabrics in the quilt trigger reminiscences and discussions between mother and daughter. Their relationship is not all sentimentality or nostalgia, however, and Molly is presented with many of the usual child and teenage problems, as well as being a great...more

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Aug 03, 2012 Casey rated it 3 of 5 stars

This was sweet, short, easy, simple read. It had a few touching moments, but there was nothing in this book that made it stand out . I did like the author's (via Linda) attention/value in MEMORIES-and the STORY behind items/fabric. The idea of the book is very cool, and the quilt, but I didn't really connect with the mother, Linda. From a PERSONAL standpoint, as a Christian, I found some of the mother's very worldly views sad and concerning. To think that, for example, sex is something a parent...more

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Aug 05, 2011 Lizz Wodrich rated it 3 of 5 stars

If you have a child headed off to college this fall, or if you have ever sent a child off to college, this book will resonate with you. It's a heartfelt look at the empty nest left when a child leaves home. I loved this quote:
Although greeting card companies have created themes around every possible life event, there's no ritual for this particular transition. ...when a child leaves for college, it is the end of something. Other than birth or death, leaving home for any reason is the most extrem...more

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Sep 10, 2011 Becky rated it 5 of 5 stars

This is the story of a mother taking her only child, a daughter, on a cross-country road trip to go away to college. Even though I experienced this 9 years ago, I still shed many tears while reading it, remembering that time and also my older daughter's recent wedding.The narrator, the mother, is making a quilt fashioned from scraps of fabric from the daughter's childhood and has many flashbacks to bittersweet memories and is constantly reminded of how short life is and how we need to treasure e...more

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May 09, 2011 Patricia Solla rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: library-books

This is truly an amazing tale of a mother and daughter traveling together to take the daughter to her first year of college. The story envolves all kinds of relationships - mother to daughter, wife to husband, daughter to boyfriend, woman to what comes next in life. The whole process revolves around a quilt that the mother is finishing for her daughter to have for her college dorm room. Why she calls it the qooodbye quilt I'm not sure and to me it really didn't matter. If you are looking for a b...more

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Jul 16, 2011 Nicola Marsh rated it 5 of 5 stars

I started this book yesterday and finished it today, between screaming deadlines, so that explains how much I enjoyed it.

I don't cry with books. Movies, yes, books no.

Linda Howard and Barbara O'Neal are the only other authors to ever make me cry and I can now add the talented Susan Wiggs to the group.

I bawled.

She has an amazing gift for tapping into a reader's emotions, by giving her characters realistic motivations and situations we can all identify with.

Even though my kids are young, I could e...more

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May 25, 2011 Regina Spiker rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: goodbyes, quilts, quilting, daughters, college, leaving, trips, bonds

Linda & Dan Davis's only child, and daughter at that, Molly, is ready to head off to college - clean on the East Coast. Linda has been been piecing together a lovely quilt of Molly's life - articles of clothing, badges, ribbon, and whatnot. When Linda decides to drive Molly to college, from their MidWestern home across all those miles, she decides to take the quilt with them and hopes to finish it along the way. Many memories and emotions are tied into the quilt and the trip becomes quite a...more

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