A wondrously simple book about something complicated: the nearly unendurable process of enduring a great loss. The novel, like knitting, seems to make itself up as it goes along, the threads bound and gathered into a whole. -- Carrie Brown - Washington Post
Acutely moving...The women's tragedies unfurl like skeins of yarn rolling down a slope. -- Allison Lynn - People
A heartbreaker. -- Elissa Schappel - Vanity Fair
I closed The Knitting Circle feeling uplifted, even cleansed. I felt as if I were seeing with fresh eyes, ready to forgive old hurts and entertain new thoughts. -- Marion Winik - Newsday
Powerful and affecting. -- John Marshal - Seattle Post-Intelligencer
One can only admire Hood for the effort she takes in this book to describe an insupportable grief...Undeniably real. The lesson-that being willing to share our stories, we learn how to live-cannot be dismissed. -- Julie Wittes Schlack - Boston Globe
[Hood's] portrait of Mary's grief is so real and so raw. The unpredictable arc of it...gives Mary's grief a three-dimensional humanity that a less familiar portraitist might have missed...The prose of The Knitting Circle is clear, even as Mary's perspective is clouded by heartbreak, and the pace of the story is just right. -- Beth Schwartzapfel - Providence Journal
Hood's words...pull you along, like a knitting pattern, one mesmerizing, settling click at a time, stitch by stitch, row by row, until you find yourself with something solid and real. -- Peggy McMullen - The Oregonian
This book is rich in sensory detail...This book shines a light on women helping each other and the world one stitch at a time. -- Jan Marin Tramontano - Albany Times Union
