Threads of Life Illustrated by Sergio Algozzino nominated for Academy Awards

nominated for Academy Awards

The rhyming phrases make this title an ideal read-aloud

and country escapes to pretty-meets-grand-style in estates and manors

and installations are accompanied by brief captions adding background detail or additional information about the art

will have readers eagerly turning the book’s pages

Threads of Life Illustrated by Sergio Algozzino nominated for Academy AwardsThis rich narrative shows how needlework has carried stories of resistance, love, and memory across centuries. An astonishing feat, this patchwork of history, culture, and politics . . . takes us from Saxon England to colonized African tribes, Palestinian villages, rural China and the cramped homes of American slaves. Sunday Times (London) Threads of Life is a chronicle of identity, protest, memory, power, and politics told through the stories of