Carly McKay's life is going just fine until she produces a television piece on psychic quilt maker Brandywine Seaver and receives a quilt with an enigmatic reading telling her that everything is about to change. And it does. She loses her job and her best friend (who proclaims his unrequited love for her). And her mother, who deserted the family seventeen years ago, returns, sending Carly into a serious tilt.

Convinced it's the quilt's fault, Carly races down to the small artists' community of Bilby, Arizona, to confront its maker, and ends up renting a cabin from her. Carly even starts to enjoy her reimagined life, until her old life comes calling. Now Carly has to decide what parts of each world she wants to patchwork in...and how much she's willing to leave to fate.

My 58th read of 2007.

I enjoyed this read. It was slow-paced, but not in such a way that the story dragged. I found myself intrigued and turning the pages quickly to find out how the readings from the quilt would come to pass.

Fun characters, although I wonder if the author realized she practically went through the alphabet naming them?

Allegra
Brandy
Carly, Christopher, Clayton
Declan, David
Ella
Five
Gladys

And there there was James, Janesse, Mary, Mack, Sebastian, Seth, Will....
Don't mind me, sometimes I just notice that kind of stuff! LOL

The ending with Quasitoado was perfect, however, I do wish we had gotten some more on Mr. "Fuck Off" Trimble!

This book is going to convention!!

Won it in a swap, thanks Kel!!