![]() ![]() In Dina, the beloved writer Patricia Reilly Giff has created one of her most engaging and vital heroines. And she didn’t know that sewing would reveal her own wonderful talent-and her future. She didn’t know she could grow so close to her new family or to Johann, the young man from the tailor’s shop. ![]() She didn’t know she could be this homesick, but she didn’t know she could be so brave either, as she is standing up to an epidemic or a fire. Why did she ever leave home? Here she is, still with a needle and thread-and homesick to boot. Never again! But looking for a job leads her right back to the sewing machine. When 13-year-old Dina leaves her small town in Germany to join her uncle’s family in Brooklyn, she turns her back on sewing. ![]() Since she was tiny, she’s worked in her family’s dressmaking business, where the sewing machine is a cranky member of the family. SEWING! NO ONE could hate it more than Dina Kirk.Įndless tiny stitches, button holes, darts. A House of Tailors Paperback – Augby Patricia Reilly Giff ![]()
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