Seventh grader Kay Garbers happy home is made up of four generations of women: Great Gran Eula; Grandma Margie; Kays mother, Karine; and Kay. But on the evening Grandma Margie tells her family she has a lump in her breast, Kays world is changed forever. Struggling with issues of popularity in junior high school, trying to understand her too-perfect mother, dealing with her feelings about friends, and coming to terms with Grandma Margies cancer diagnosis and illness, Kay is awhirl with questions that have no easy answers. But Kay is a survivor, and as she journeys through these difficult months she comes to a new understanding of the complexities and importance of faith and family. Told through forthright and perceptive poems in Kays own voice, Loose Threads reverberates with emotion and depth and will leave no reader untouched.
