Patch Work: WINNER OF THE 2021 PEN ACKERLEY PRIZE

“As skillful and oblique in its structure as the precious gowns she describes.” -Rebecca Mead, New Yorker, “Best Books of the Year”

An expert and intimate exploration of a life in clothes: their memories and stories, enchantments and spells.

A linen sheet, smooth with age. A box of buttons, mother-of-pearl and plastic, metal and glass, rattling and untethered. A hundred-year-old pin, forgotten in a hem. Fragile silks and fugitive dyes, fans and crinolines,...