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SEWING! NO ONE could hate it more than Dina Kirk.
Endless tiny stitches, button holes, darts. Since she was tiny, she's worked in her family's dressmaking business, where the sewing machine is a cranky member of the family.
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. Never again! But looking for a job leads her right back to the sewing machine. Why did she ever leave home? Here she is, still with a needle and thread—and homesick to boot.
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. She didn't know she could grow so close to her new family or to Johann, the young man from the tailor's shop. And she didn't know that sewing would reveal her own wonderful talent—and her future.
In Dina, the beloved writer Patricia Reilly Giff has created one of her most engaging and vital heroines. Readers will enjoy seeing 1870s Brooklyn through Dina's eyes, and share her excitement as she discovers a new world.
From the Hardcover edition.
When thirteen-year-old Dina emigrates from Germany to America in 1871, her only wish is to return home as soon as she can, but as the months pass and she survives a multitude of hardships living with her uncle and his young wife and baby, she finds herself thinking of Brooklyn as her home.
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Melanie Johnson
reviewed A House of Tailors on November 15, 2018
A House of Tailors
"I looked out at the city and thought about wrapping my arms around it. I was beginning to love Brooklyn, with its heat and its cold, its dust and its dirt."
The book "A House of Tailors" is mainly revolved around the concept of "home." A question the protagonist asked herself was, "Where is home?"
The protagonist Dina immigrated from her hometown Breisach to Brooklyn. Dina described Breisach as "the beautiful festive town with its river and its cathedral..." and it is where Dina grew up. Her beloved family lives there, and Dina said: "I'll always be homesick for it."
On the other hand, Brooklyn is the city that Dina always wanted to live in, with its "glamorous hats" and "beautiful houses". But as Dina settled down in this place, she was forced to work every day to earn money. As she was living in her uncle's house, she survived through a Smallpox breakout. As she walked down the dusty streets, the cold wind rattled her bones. She gradually realized that Brooklyn isn't what she thought it would be, but Dina learns to love her new family in Brooklyn and the people there.
This book reminds me of the art project I am currently working on, a project where we create an artwork based on our knowledge of "home". We designed our piece using anything, and I asked myself if Dina were to make this project what would she make. Her artwork might be a combination of the river from Breisach and her apartment in Brooklyn. Dina's concept of home is where she can live joyfully to pursue her passion.
"A house is built of walls and beams,
A home is built of love and dreams."
---Unknown
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