Tony and Susan Syria smile at how she can

smile at how she can ""read"" fellow quilters through their pile of old quilt blocks and scraps and pieces

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Tony and Susan Syria smile at how she canFifteen years ago, Susan Morrow left her first husband, Edward Sheffield, an unpublished writer. Now, she's enduring middle class suburbia as a doctor's wife, when out of the blue she receives a package containing the manuscript of her ex husband's first novel. He writes asking her to read the book; she was always his best critic, he says. As Susan reads, she is drawn into the fictional life of Tony Hastings, a math professor driving his family to