Dropped Threads 2: More of What We Aren't Told

By Marjorie Anderson and Carol Shields

Continuing in the tradition of the beloved first volume, Dropped Threads 2: More of What We Aren't Told taps into women's compelling need to share their personal reflections on life's defining moments of surprise and silence. These stories celebrate the female experience with an honesty
and intimacy that will take your breath away. Readers will explore what may be unfamiliar terrain, and will come away with the powerful knowledge of what it must be like to step into another woman's shoes. "The fact is," writes Adrienne Clarkson in the foreword, "none of us knows anything, and it is what happens to us in life that teaches us everything."

Carol Shields and Marjorie Anderson, with the assistance of Carol's daughter Catherine, have gathered an astounding collection of fresh, beautifully crafted and original pieces by well-known Canadians, including Jane Urquhart, Susan Swan, Shelagh Rogers, Michele Landsberg, Elizabeth Hay, Billie Livingston, Sandra Martin and Flora MacDonald. As with the first book, this volume also includes contributions from new writers, women whose names you may not recognize but whose stories will resonate, move and inspire.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0679312064
• ISBN13: 9780679312062
• Release Date: April 2003
• Publisher: Vintage Books Canada
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.24 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Picking up the threads

A series of just over thirty short essays by Canadian authors, Dropped Threads 2 is a continuation of the first Dropped Threads book which began the discussion of women's lives from childrearing (or choosing not to) to rape to love to death and beyond. Each essay is a snippet of these women's lives, of things they have witnessed and done and thought - a mini memoir, if you will. While the topics and ideas in these essays no longer feel like items that cannot be and should not be discussed in the 21st century, they are certainly still often found to be taboo and stifling - stuff not to be discussed in "polite company". The overwhelming emotion in the essays is the relief on behalf of the authors to have an outlet for their insights - insights that are often born of tumultuous conditions. Every woman who reads these essays will find familiar ideas and actions and will be inspired to take note of her own experiences in life. Given the various topics and writing styles there is something for everyone in this collection of brilliantly compiled essays. It is a thoughtful gift idea for any young woman making her way in the world.