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The Wreath Ribbon Quilt
A collection of short stories, including "Moon Over Magnolias," "The Eyes of Argus," "Pieces of Crow," "The Wreath-Ribbon Quilt," and more
157 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1989
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About the author
Ruth Moose
21 books40 followersFiction Writer, Poet, Novelist, Teacher
Ruth Moose writes. For forty years she’s written poems, short stories, book reviews and columns and recently completed her first novel. Originally from Albemarle, North Carolina, she now lives in Pittsboro, North Carolina, where she continues to write and teach since her retirement from the faculty of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Creative Writing Department in 2010.
With an authentic Southern voice, her characters resonate the humor and tragedy of everyday lives.
Ruth Moose’s first novel, Doing it at the Dixie Dew, won the 2013 Minotaur Books/Malice Domestic Best First Traditional Mystery Novel Award, published by St. Martin’s Press/Minotaur Books, May 2014. She was on the Creative Writing faculty at UNC-Chapel Hill for 15 years. She’s published three collections of short stories, The Wreath Ribbon Quilt, Dreaming in Color and Neighbors and Other Strangers with individual stories in The Atlantic, Alaska Quarterly Review, North American Review, Southern California Review and other places including publications in Holland, South Africa, England and Denmark. Moose has published six collections of poetry, most recently, The Librarian and Other Poems and Tea. She’s received, among other awards for poetry and short story, a MacDowell Fellowship and a prestigious Chapman Family Teaching Award. A native North Carolinian, she now lives in Pittsboro, NC.
Ruth Moose writes. For forty years she’s written poems, short stories, book reviews and columns and recently completed her first novel. Originally from Albemarle, North Carolina, she now lives in Pittsboro, North Carolina, where she continues to write and teach since her retirement from the faculty of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Creative Writing Department in 2010.
With an authentic Southern voice, her characters resonate the humor and tragedy of everyday lives.
Ruth Moose’s first novel, Doing it at the Dixie Dew, won the 2013 Minotaur Books/Malice Domestic Best First Traditional Mystery Novel Award, published by St. Martin’s Press/Minotaur Books, May 2014. She was on the Creative Writing faculty at UNC-Chapel Hill for 15 years. She’s published three collections of short stories, The Wreath Ribbon Quilt, Dreaming in Color and Neighbors and Other Strangers with individual stories in The Atlantic, Alaska Quarterly Review, North American Review, Southern California Review and other places including publications in Holland, South Africa, England and Denmark. Moose has published six collections of poetry, most recently, The Librarian and Other Poems and Tea. She’s received, among other awards for poetry and short story, a MacDowell Fellowship and a prestigious Chapman Family Teaching Award. A native North Carolinian, she now lives in Pittsboro, NC.
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July 27, 2019
Decent short stories by an author I never heard of, rich in the dialogue and speech patterns I grew up with, and the people in the stories, crazy as they were, were quite familiar to me.
But the really important thing about this book is that I discovered it in my mailbox one day, sent to me by an old high school friend who remembered how much I love to read. In the intervening 45+ years, we took different paths. I moved away, she stayed. We kept in touch through letters, email, facebook, saw each other a handful of times, and send Christmas cards. She is in an exercise class with this author, remembered how I always had my nose in a book, and got her to inscribe a copy for me. So the important thing here is the kindness of an old friend who brightened my day. The older I get, the more I'm convinced that kindness is the most important thing in the world.
But the really important thing about this book is that I discovered it in my mailbox one day, sent to me by an old high school friend who remembered how much I love to read. In the intervening 45+ years, we took different paths. I moved away, she stayed. We kept in touch through letters, email, facebook, saw each other a handful of times, and send Christmas cards. She is in an exercise class with this author, remembered how I always had my nose in a book, and got her to inscribe a copy for me. So the important thing here is the kindness of an old friend who brightened my day. The older I get, the more I'm convinced that kindness is the most important thing in the world.
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