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Susan splitt denver1/6/2024 Being connected to the reality of September 11 - watching those events unfold on live television, watching the towers fall, watching the people who chose their own destiny from the windows - made Clara's shock and grief over the events of August 1911 more real to me. This book is historical fiction on two fronts, both the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire and the Twin Towers tragedy. ![]() The scarf pulls both of them out of their inertia and forces them to see the truth - that love is a gift, something we choose, and that our lives move forward and change us whether we like it or not. Both harbor pain as the result of tragedy, both are stuck in an in-between place - unable to go back, incapable of moving on. Meissner masterfully weaves the stories together, blending the edges in a smooth flow, making their lives almost one and the same. The story is about two women, their lives lived a century apart yet entwined with a single scarf and a shared grief. I can't remember when I've read a story that resonates with me as deeply as this one. Both harbor pain as the result of tragedy, both are stuck This book could quite possibly be my most favorite book of all time. This book could quite possibly be my most favorite book of all time. Will a chance reconnection and a century-old scarf open Taryn’s eyes to the larger forces at work in her life? Then a long-lost photograph appears in a national magazine, and she is forced to relive the terrible day her husband died in the collapse of the World Trade Towers …the same day a stranger reached out and saved her. On Manhattan’s Upper West Side, widow Taryn Michaels has convinced herself that she is living fully, working in a charming specialty fabric store and raising her daughter alone. ![]() Will what she learns devastate her or free her? Then, while caring for a fevered immigrant whose own loss mirrors hers, she becomes intrigued by a name embroidered onto the scarf he carries …and finds herself caught in a dilemma that compels her to confront the truth about the assumptions she’s made. On Ellis Island in New York Harbor, nurse Clara Wood cannot face returning to Manhattan, where the man she loved fell to his death in the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire. Then, while caring for a fevered im A beautiful scarf, passed down through the generations, connects two women who learn that the weight of the world is made bearable by the love we give away. A beautiful scarf, passed down through the generations, connects two women who learn that the weight of the world is made bearable by the love we give away.
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