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    Yarn: Remembering the Way Home
    Yarn: Remembering the Way Home
    Yarn: Remembering the Way Home
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    Yarn: Remembering the Way Home

    By Kyoko Mori

    3.5/5

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    A memoir of crossing cultures, losing love and finding home by a New York Times Notable author in her prime. As steadily and quietly as her marriage falls apart, so Kyoko Mori?s understanding of knitting deepens. From the flawed school mittens made in her native Japan, where needlework is used as a way to prepare women for marriage and silence, to
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGemma
    Release dateNov 1, 2009
    ISBN9781934848968
    Yarn: Remembering the Way Home
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    Kyoko Mori

    Kyoko Mori is the author of three nonfiction books (The Dream of Water; Polite Lies; Yarn) and four novels (Shizuko’s Daughter; One Bird; Stone Field, True Arrow; Barn Cat). Her essays and stories have appeared in The Best American Essays, Harvard Review, the American Scholar, Colorado Review, Conjunctions, and other venues. She teaches nonfiction writing in the MFA Program in Creative Writing at George Mason University and the Low-Residency MFA Program at Lesley University. She lives in Washington, DC, with her cats, Miles and Jackson.

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    • 4/5
      Kyoki Mori delivers a moving account of her life by threading together various knitting projects with different episodes in her life. As Mori's story unravels, you share pain when she loses her mother, the frustration she feels with her family, the slow demise of her marraige and the joy she finds when she takes charge of her life.I don't read many memoirs, but I thoroughly enjoyed Mori's story.Though at times the story is slow-paced, threads of Mori's youth weave seamlessly with lessons she learns as adult. Each section in the book corresponds with a different project, and they range in their difficulty: scarves, cardigans, fair isle, etc. At one point she compares her marriage to instarsia -- her and husband come together when it suits them, knitting together the image the pattern calls for, but when the image is done, they separate until the next pattern.The book jumps back and forth a lot from Mori's youth to her present day, but Mori is so frank and honest about her life that the way she tells her story works beautifully. Though Mori is a drastically different type of woman than I am, she is comfortable in her own skin and in the end I admire her strength and courage."Yarn -- Remembering the Way Home" is more than just the memoir of a knitter. It's a story woven together in pieces, and much like in a knitted garment, the end result is worth it.
    • 4/5
      Having read two of the author's YA novels, I was excited to find that one of her memoirs involved yarn, which is a passion of mine. (Big fibre artist when I'm not reading and writing, you see.) I was interested to see just what lay inside.What I found was a frank and honest telling of many parts of her life, ranging from events in her childhood to her marriage to open self-reflection. Arranged in sections relating to specific knitted garments and how they relate to her life as a whole, it was easy to see the common threads that held everything together, that pushed and pulled and held all the events and emotions that she experienced. Following the author's journey like this, I not only got to feel closer to her and understand her better, but I got the chance to understand myself a little better too, as though I was less a passive observer and more an active participant.Which, I think, must have been intentional. Aside from the fact that she can tell a good story and create believable characters, it didn't escape my notice that the theme of "common threads" can be applied between author and reader, between participant and observer, and that there's a connection to be felt.More than that, there's the lesson that no matter how many threads run between people, places, or things, nothing is eternal. Nothing is so flawed that it cannot, with a little effort, be snipped and repaired until the problem has been fixed. And not everything needs to be perfect, either.I admire her more now that I've read this book, and I took away from it more understanding and inspiration than I expected to. This was far more than a story about yarn, more than a story about a woman, and, much as in knitting, weaving, or spinning, the finished whole is much greater than the sum of its parts.
    • 4/5
      Set aside your knitting needles awhile and explore the memoir of Kyoko Mori, a young Japanese woman who came to the United States to finish her education and to escape life with her father in Japan. After her mother’s death by suicide, Kyoko decided she did not want to follow the traditional path of Japanese women and planned not to return to the country of her birth after her graduation from college. As Kyoko’s life slowly moved along in the unremarkable Midwest, she married a man who seemed both close and distant to her. Though married, each seemed to be circling around the other, almost afraid to become too intertwined. This left me with a disturbing and pervasive feeling of melancholy throughout the whole book.For solace and as a reminder of the sewing that her mother Takato used to do when Kyoko was a small child, she took up knitting. Knitting became a large part of her life, along with teaching, and searching for a settled feeling among others in the various places she lived. The title of her book “Yarn” was not only the medium in which Kyoko loved to work, but also became a metaphor for her life as she knit together those pieces she liked and unraveled those she did not.This was a beautifully written memoir, but one which left me feeling a bit down. I guess I’d wanted to learn more about the joys that she experienced as well as the sadnesses. However, Kyoko’s joys were very subtle. They came in the peacefulness of writing, the soothing activity of knitting, and in the comfort of friendship. It's all there in her book for the reader to finally discover.

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