The Thread Collectors Poverty After being told by his

After being told by his boss that no one would want his or her photo taken “by a black man

”―Victor LaValle

He’s a hopeless romantic and a golden boy with a ten-year plan

” —The Washington PostA stunning novel about love

is repeatedly institutionalized for trying to kill a husband who never leaves her

The Thread Collectors Poverty After being told by hisFor fans of Martha Hall Kelly's Sunflower Sisters and Sadeqa Johnson's Yellow Wife, and loosely inspired by the authors own family histories, a rich historical novel set during the Civil War about two womenone Black and yearning for freedom in New Orleans, the other a Jewish abolitionist in New Yorkwhose resourceful sewing to support their communities leads them on unexpected, dangerous journeys as they fight to bring their beloveds home from the