A new novel from the author of Clay and Heart! Seven Women. Three different centuries. One thread that connects everything and everyone. In Victoria Beschliyska's third book, 130 years are locked into a single day, unlocking themes of the origins of female power and the indivisibility of time.
The morning of Vidovden confronts Maria with a long-slept truth - everything broken in her life is a consequence not of weakness, but of the strength she carries. To stitch it back together, she must return to where she is staggering - the Balkan.
As she approaches the bright houses in the small town of Elena, the stories of six other women move toward her, pulled by the thread of an otherworldly carpet. The magic weave of the carpet connects Maria to her ever-active mother Ruzha, who managed to find happiness in order; to her grandmother Dana, who passed on to her the gift of creating with her hands; to her great-grandmother Zorka, who built the house that will always be her home; and to three strangers treading familiar paths to the heart - the pianist Ana, the innkeeper Skarda, and the weaver Jova.
Flitting between today and once before, the chapters in "Thread" move like the shuttle on the loom and paint the eternal truth that the present day is a manifestation of all times past and future. That we each carry our ancestors and those to be born. But also that we have the freedom to chart our own path when we take the power of the unseen and weave it into the visible. This is a book that brings the comfort that reality is the true savior.
