Show More with accounts of quilting bees, the hardness of farm life, and small town customs. I will enthusiastically recommend Alice's Tulips and all of Sandra Dallas' work to quilters and fans of female-centered historical fiction such as that written by Jennifer Chiaverini and Tracy Chevalier. There is a murder, but it plays a lesser role in the story than Alice's growth as a woman. For the most part, the letters work well as a storytelling device, though some passages don't come across as entirely authentic - for example, when Alice describes her appearance to her sister or recounts an entire conversation verbatim, though as a reader I was glad for the information! I expected a murder mystery from the book's description. I am not a quilter, but enjoyed reading the historical tidbits. Each chapter began with a brief quilting blurb, which tied in with the letters that followed. Through her letters, Dallas captures many of the hardships women faced in the era. Alice is spunky, funny, and quite likable. The mother of two daughters-Dana is an attorney in New Orleans and Povy is a photographer in Golden, Colorado-Sandra lives in Denver with her husband, Bob.Show More farm with her stern mother-in-law when her husband joins the Union Army during the Civil War. Award, and a four-time finalist for the Women Writing the West Willa Award. In addition, she was a finalist for the Colorado Book Award, the Mountain and Plains Booksellers Assn. Sandra is the recipient of the Women Writing the West Willa Award for New Mercies, and two-time winner of the Western Writers of America Spur Award, for The Chili Queen and Tallgrass. Turning to fiction in 1990, Sandra has published eight novels, including Prayers For Sale. They include Sacred Paint, which won the National Cowboy Hall of Fame Western Heritage Wrangler Award, and The Quilt That Walked to Golden, recipient of the Independent Publishers Assn.
While a reporter, she began writing the first of ten nonfiction books.
Many of her experiences have been incorporated into her novels. A staff member for twenty-five years (and the magazine’s first female bureau chief,) she covered the Rocky Mountain region, writing about everything from penny-stock scandals to hard-rock mining, western energy development to contemporary polygamy. Sandra’s novels with their themes of loyalty, friendship, and human dignity have been translated into a dozen foreign languages and have been optioned for films.Ī journalism graduate of the University of Denver, Sandra began her writing career as a reporter with Business Week. Award-winning author SANDRA DALLAS was dubbed “a quintessential American voice” by Jane Smiley, in Vogue Magazine.
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