I really enjoyed this story for what it was, a Christian novel that spans three generations, weaving issues of race, family drama, life decisions and matricide (?) what? No, really. I won a copy of this book through BookishFirst and I almost didn't enter the drawing because of the genre, but I was so intrigued by the synopsis I decided to give it a go anyway. I'm really glad I did. The religious elements of the novel were pretty deftly interwoven into the story, much like the beautiful way the stories about the quilts featured in the novel, and I didn't feel as though I was being beaten about the head with god talk, which is a nice feature in a Christian novel. The chapters move back and forth between the 1870s, the 1960s and modern day among the same family, regarding how the family first sheltered runaway slaves, then blamed the families downfall on said slaves, and now in modern, day how that past has affected where the members of the family have ended up. I didn't completely fall in love with the characters, because this was more of a plot novel than it was a character study, but it was such an amazing plot that I wasn't left feeling like I'd missed anything. Really great read.