Sewing Holes, by Darlyn Kuhn
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“With infinite grace, Sewing Holes explores love and loss, spirituality and crisis, redemption and forgiveness. …Read it, celebrate it, and buy copies for your friends, for this is a book that reminds us what the true nature of love is all about.” — Connie May Fowler, author of Before Women had Wings and How Clarissa Burden Learned to Fly
“In her debut novel Sewing Holes, Darlyn Finch Kuhn has written an authentic and touching account of growing up in the 1970s that ties life in Jacksonville, Florida, to the national traumas of that era. … It’s a generous tale of maturation that all young girls and their mothers and fathers should read. …” — Sena Jeter Naslund, author of Ahab’s Wife, Four Spirits, and The Fountain of St. James Court
“In the tradition of Carson McCullers and Rick Bragg, Darlyn Finch Kuhn writes with an acute sense of romanticism, confusion and heartache that is childhood and family life in the American South.” — Bob Kealing, author of Calling Me Home; Tupperware, Unsealed; and Kerouac in Florida
“With alternating doses of heartbreak and humor, Darlyn Finch Kuhn’s debut coming-of-age novel, Sewing Holes is a Southern charmer. … Grab your coffee and find a comfortable chair, because Sewing Holes will suck you in and keep you reading to the last line.” — Julie Compton, author of Tell No Lies, Keep No Secrets, and Rescuing Olivia
“Darlyn, true to her adorable southern name, has spun a yarn that caught my heart like a mullet in a cast net. Sewing Holes has that southern way of turning tragedy into story … into love.” — Stacy Barton, author of Surviving Nashville: Short Stories and Like Summer Grass
“…The young narrator’s authentic southern voice, reminiscent of Will Tweedy in Cold Sassy Tree, pulls the reader along a compelling journey of love, loss and redemption.” — Pat Spears, author of Dream Chaser
“Sewing Holes is a delightful debut novel that hits all the emotions. Highly recommended.” — Terry Odell. author of the Blackthorne, Inc. and Pine Hills Police novels
Sewing Holes, by Darlyn Kuhn- Amazon Sales Rank: #1133471 in eBooks
- Published on: 2015-03-25
- Released on: 2015-03-25
- Format: Kindle eBook
About the Author Darlyn Finch Kuhn is the author of Red Wax Rose (Shady Lane Press, 2007), Three Houses (Scribbles, 2008), and Sewing Holes (Twisted Road Publications, 2015). Her work has appeared in literary journals, newspapers, magazines and online. Her poems have been featured on Poetic Logic on WMFE-FM, and been read by Garrison Keillor on the The Writer's Almanac. She was interviewed on World Radio Paris. She is the eponymous "Scribbler," of the Scribbles e-newsletter.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. Sewing Holes weaves a warm and intimate portrait of a fictional Southern family By Donna S. Meredith Like many Southern novels, Sewing Holes explores a somewhat dysfunctional family facing challenges and loss. Yet Darlyn Finch Kuhn’s refreshing approach to this material results in a novel more heartwarming than tragic, more uplifting than gloomy.Narrator Tupelo Honey Lee is known by her middle name—for obvious reasons. Set in 1975 in Jacksonville, Florida, the prologue reveals a fifteen-year-old girl full of angst: "The day I tried to fix Mama started out like all the other days since Daddy died. In the morning I had a mother who was broke, but by nightfall I’d made things so much worse, she wouldn’t even look at me."Right away, we empathize with Honey, whose father has died and whose mother is so broken by the loss Honey must assume the role of caretaker.The use of a retrospective narrator allows deeper perceptions to filter into scenes than Honey’s youth would otherwise permit. Bookended by the prologue and epilogue, the five main parts of the novel span seven years, with the epilogue leaping far into Honey’s adult life.In the first chapter, the novel backtracks to 1970, to a happier day when Honey’s father is crafting a cast net from clear fishing line. He informs Honey he is gathering holes from an empty mop bucket and stitching them together. Though at first Honey doesn’t quite catch on to what he is making, his playful pretense of classifying some holes as “keepers” and others as “rotten” is contagious. Honey pretends to throw away a bad hole into the back yard and her daddy is “so disgusted” with one he flushes it down the john. A small piece of perfection, this scene captures a father bonding with his child through play—and illustrates the magic of love and joy he creates from nothing more than air. The story would be worth reading for this touching scene alone, but the pages hold many more gems to mine.Offering a distinct contrast, Honey’s relationship with her mother causes her considerable grief. Most of the time she isn’t sure her mother even likes her. Her mother insists on keeping a safe, spotless home. If anything disrupts her carefully ordered world “the monster hiding inside” screams, yells, and hits. The novel, however, doesn’t linger long on scenes depicting the mother’s rage. Honey does her best to prevent anything or anybody from upsetting her mother; despite these efforts, her parents argue frequently because of too little money and her mother’s irrational jealousy of other women.When Honey has to sew a “memory apron” in home ec class, she must evaluate and come to terms with her life. The apron serves a literary purpose as well, stitching together the disparate parts of the story. Reflecting on family memories, Honey realizes all parents make mistakes with their children, but “time dulls the pain of those mistakes, if we let it, and leaves the bonds intact.”The closing chapters brim with lovely moments of growth, forgiveness, and reconciliation. As you turn the last pages, you won’t feel as if you wallowed in the muck of people’s lives; instead, you’ll feel as if you had an intimate conversation with a collection of very real, very human characters. They just might remind you of the folks who live next door—or maybe even your own relatives. Yes, they have a few warts, but don’t we all? Love, Kuhn shows us, allows us to overlook more than a few flaws.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. going to read it AGAIN. By Robyn Weinbaum i'll admit it: i've known darlyn for many years. i am blown away by how she has grown as a writer. Sewing Holes made me cry. This is a beautiful novel, a capsule of growing up during the turmoil of the viet nam war, surrounded by the conflicts of weekday alcohol and sunday church, punctuated with sweet tea and 'bless her heart'. GREAT READ!
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Honey, the narrator, grabbed me immediately and kept ... By ALS Honey, the narrator, grabbed me immediately and kept me up reading straight through till 2am. Ultimately, it's a story of loss and forgiveness, themes that the author handles with a touching simplicity that stays with you.
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