The Dream Stitcher

<p>In <em>The Dream Stitcher</em> main characters Goldye and Maude are connected by a thread that stretches across decades. They will never meet.</p><p>The novel moves between two time periods and places America in 2008 and World War II in Warsaw Poland.</p><p>Hard times are forcing Maude Fields to take in her estranged mother Bea whose secrets date to World War II. Bea arrives with a handmade needlepoint recreation of <em>La Tapisserie de la Reine Mathilde</em> the iconic 11th century Bayeux Tapestry which she has stitched in secret at a nursing home. The replica contains clues to the identity of Maude’s father and the mythical Dream Stitcher Goldye a Jewish freedom fighter who helped launch the 1943 Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.</p><p>As the Nazis move into Poland Goldye discovers that she can embroider dreams that come true. She becomes an apprentice at Kaminski Fine Fabrics where she gains a reputation for creating wedding dresses for Aryan brides that bring their dreams to reality. Goldye also wants to help her lover Lev raise money for guns so he can launch a rebellion.  She stitches a hummingbird which becomes both a symbol of hope and a catalyst for funds.  She is known as the Dream Stitcher.</p><p>Goldye is living a lie pretending to be Jan Kaminski’s Aryan niece. She and Jan are forced to undertake a dangerous trip to France with a Nazi commander to decipher the symbols of The Bayeux Tapestry looking for favorable signs that support the Nazis.</p><p>In California the tapestry fuels Maude’s quest for the truth about her family and perhaps love. </p><p> </p><p> </p>