Knitting Under the Influence
by Claire LaZebnik
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Author: Claire LaZebnikEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2006-09-01
ISBN: 0446697958
Number of pages: 416
Publisher: 5 Spot
Book Reviews of Knitting Under the Influence
Book Review: Three L.A. Friends Share Their Lives, Loves, and Knitting
Summary: 5 Stars
The fun illustration on the cover of this book hooked me into reading this book. The book turned out to deliver a much different story than I was expecting, and I ended up thoroughly engrossed in the story. Kathleen, Sari, and Lucy are three single friends living the fast life in Los Angeles. The three friends get together every Sunday morning for a kntiting circle, where they share their weekly happenings and love lives over knitting. The book turned out to be much more about the girls learning to find personal fulfillment and love than about either knitting or drinking, but that's okay!
A major sub-theme in the book is treatment for autism. In the story, Sari, whose older brother Charlie is autistic, works as a therapist at an autism clinic. Sari must deal with a bunch of conflicting emotions when she begins treating 4-year old Zack Smith, whose father Jason Smith went to high school with Sari and ran with a group of kids who made fun of Charlie and called him a "retard". The author has an autistic son of her own, and does a great job of weaving in the autism angle into the storyline.
Kathleen and Lucy are also very interesting characters. Kathleen is a triplet whose two identical sisters are child stars similar to the Olsen twins. As a triplet and a sibling of semi-famous celebrities, Kathleen is searching for her own identity. Finally, Lucy has a very interesting job doing animal research in a lab at UCLA, and has to deal with a lot of issues because her job involves killing rats for her research.
This book was a wonderful surprise for me, and I will definitely be on the lookout for more books written by Ms. LaZebnik.
Summary of Knitting Under the Influence
When you're in your late twenties and nothing in your life seems to be falling into place, knitting is an awfully seductive way to spend your free time. After all, as long as you're following the instructions, you can knit row after row with the knowledge that the pattern will emerge and you'll end up with just what you wanted. Life, on the other hand, doesn't come with a stitch counter, so Kathleen, Sari, and Lucy, the heroines of KNITTING UNDER THE INFLUENCE, just have to figure things out as they go along.Their weekly Sunday knitting circle is the only thing holding them together as Kathleen is cut off financially by her family and forced to enter `the real world' for the very first time at the age of twenty-seven, Sari finds herself falling for the man who made her life a living hell in high school but who now desperately needs her help, and Lucy finds herself torn between emotion and reason when her lab and her boyfriend are assailed by an animal-rights group.
At their club meetings, they discuss the really important questions: how bad is it, really, to marry for money if you like the guy a lot anyway? Can you ever forgive someone for something truly atrocious that they've done? Is it better to be unhappily coupled than happily alone? And the little ones: Can you wear a bra with a hand-knit tube top? Is it ever acceptable to knit something for a boyfriend? And why do your stitches become lopsided after your second martini?
In Claire LaZebnik's hilarious and sometimes heartbreaking novel, Sari, Lucy, and Kathleen's lives intersect, overlap, unravel, and come back together-the result is an utterly satisfying read.
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