Unraveling: What I Learned About Life While Shearing Sheep, Dyeing Wool, and Making the World's Ugliest Sweater

"Like many other people, I picked up knitting again during the throes of the COVID-19 pandemic. Peggy Orenstein did too – in a more thorough way than most. She documents my (maybe somewhat specific) dream: making a sweater truly from scratch, starting with shearing a sheep, then spinning the yarn, dyeing the wool and finally knitting it up. As Orenstein goes through each step, she interrogates our historical and current relationship to the making of clothes. At the same time, Unraveling is a memoir of a life during COVID: the tedious stress of lockdown, all while facing big shifts in her relationships with a parent and a child. The breadth is wide, and it all comes together cohesively in Orenstein’s conversational, engaging prose."