This is a beautiful story about the bond shared between Tanya and her grandmother as they talk about each piece of fabric that is cut and stitched together as part of a quilt of memories.
Show Ways are quilts that were once made to be secret maps for slaves trying to escape to freedom. The book shows the tradition of making Show Ways and how it is passed on from mother to daughter through the generations.
For hundreds of years, the women of Gee's Bend have quilted together...stitchin' and pullin'. Baby Girl anxiously awaits the day that she is able to join in at the quilting frame.