3.5 stars. 
 This book should just kowtow to Frederick Neitzsche. So many quotes by the fella! When you build a book around philosophical quotes, I feel you lose some original spark. Because the quotes are defining the story and key moments of the plot. I read the quote, and more or less, know what's up ahead. That said, a pleasant read involving members of a knitting club based in Chicago. This particular one, focused on Ash, the former beauty queen. Ash and Drew find solace in each other, in a six-week timespan, with the backdrop of Ash's mother succumbing to cancer. You think it won't work, but the book just about pulled it off. But I am strictly in the "quoting-poetry-at-each-other-to-express-their-love-is-slightly-barf-worthy" camp. How avante-garde. But kinda sweet?