The World's Fair Quilt: An Elm Creek Quilts Novel [Paperback]

Return to Elm Creek Manor with a heartfelt historical fiction celebration of quilting, family, community, and history fromNew York Timesbestselling author Jennifer Chiaverini.

As Sylvia Bergstrom Compson contends with financial setbacks at Elm Creek Quilt Camp, her friend and colleague Summer Sullivan asks a special favor. In this compelling sister story, when Sylvia and her elder sister were teenagers, they entered a quilt in the Sears National Quilt Contest for the 1933 Century of Progress Exposition. The unprecedented competition offered its 25,000 participants the opportunity for artistic expression, the thrill of competition, a tantalizing grand prize, and fame, with the finalists quilts prominently displayed at the Chicago Worlds Faira poignant snapshot of 1930s America during the Great Depression. If Sylvia lent the Bergstrom sisters Worlds Fair Quilt to Summers exhibit, it would illuminate a forgotten chapter of womens history.

Sylvia grants Summers request, but with misgivings. Neglected in the attic for decades, the fragile antique requires careful cleaning and repairand not all of the memories it evokes are pleasant. Threads of fierce sibling rivalry were woven into the fabric of the sisters relationship. Yet as their masterpiece took shape, the reluctant partners discovered in each other an artistic kindred spirit, and perhaps even a frienduntil a troubling family secret threatened to shatter their newfound sisterhood.

“Chiaverini’s twenty-second Elm Creek Quilts novel…is like a strong cup of tea—cozy yet hard-hitting—and will appeal to current fans and new readers alike.” -Booklist on The Museum of Lost Quilts

“Celebrating the 20th anniversary of the first novel in her extensive Elm Creek Quilts series, Chiaverini’s latest installment is rich with detail...telling the tale of a particular woman’s motivation to design and craft a particlCÁ