Only the quilt is colored, which serves to highlight the prominent role of the quilt for the family. The author’s own unique artwork beautifully enhances the story of how her family left Russia to immigrate to America. With the quilt as a central feature, the author tells her family story, describing the many traditions of her family, both cultural and religious, and how those traditions changed and adapted over time and with the blending of both Russian and American cultures. Originally made from the author’s great grandmother’s favorite dress and headscarf, or babushka, and decorated by her great grandmother’s friends, the keeping quilt shows up on the table as a tablecloth, on the grass as a picnic blanket, at weddings, and wrapped around the newest babies in the family. ‘It will be like having the family in backhome Russia dance around us at night’.” “’We will make a quilt to help us always remember home,” Anna’s mother said. The Keeping Quilt is the heartwarming biography of four generations of the author’s own immigrant Jewish family and the unique quilt that wraps all of the generations together.
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