Book::  The Friday Night Knitting Club

Author:Kate Jacobs

Review:  I was pleasantly suprised at how good this book was.  It is really not about knitting, but rather the lives of the women who attend the club.  The primary focus is the owner of the shop and her teenage daughter.  The daughter's father is black, and the mother white.  The father suddenly comes back to New York after 14 years and wants to be involved, not just with the daughter, but with the mother as well.  There are several endearing characters in the club: the grandmotherly figure, soon to be single mother, grad student with troubled marriage, designer trying to break out, middle aged career woman who is out of work.  It all comes together suddenly at the end, and makes the trip worthwhile.