How to Make an American Quilt

"Intensely thoughtful...honest...intelligent....The book spans half a century and addresses not only (these women's) histories but also their children's, their lovers', their country's, and, in the process, their gender's."SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLEEight women gather together over the years to piece together an extrarodinary quilt of their own imaginative devising. And as they stitch, we listen to the stories they have to tell of their successes and failures, their lives and loves, their dreams, desires, and the surprise and sometimes joy of living.A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE COMING OUT FALL 1995 -- with Winona Ryder, Maya Angelou, and Rip Torn