Unraveling: What I Learned About Life While Shearing Sheep, Dyeing Wool, and Making the World’s Ugliest Sweater by Peggy Orenstein

“奥伦斯坦是一位轻松、有趣的作家，人们很容易忘记她也是一位重要的思想家。

在这本生动有趣的回忆录中，佩吉-奥伦斯坦着手从头开始做一件毛衣–剪羊毛、纺羊毛、染羊毛–并在这个过程中发现我们如何通过工艺找到最深的自我。奥伦斯坦编织了一个能吸引所有人的纱线。

科维德大流行推动许多人以大大小小的方式改变他们的生活。一些人收养了小狗。另一些人则是在压力下烘烤。佩吉-奥伦斯坦（Peggy Orenstein），一个终生的编织者，走得更远。为了让自己保持活力并应对家庭生活中一系列的震荡变化，她开始从头开始做一件衣服：学习剪羊毛、纺纱和染色，然后给自己织一件毛衣。

奥伦斯坦希望这个项目不仅能帮助她处理羊毛问题，还能帮助她处理对最近母亲去世和父亲衰弱的悲痛，处理她即将离开大学的女儿，以及在一个既无视又不屑的文化中，作为女性的其他棘手的衰老问题。她没有想到的是，她的旅程涉及我们这个时代的一些主要问题：气候焦虑、种族正义、妇女权利、技术的影响、可持续性，以及最终，家的意义。

奥伦斯坦用她那诙谐的声音、敏锐的智慧和旺盛的诚实，分享了她作为女儿、妻子、母亲、作家和制造者的一年的旅程–并教给我们关于创造力和联系的东西。

“Orenstein is such a breezy, funny writer, it’s easy to forget she’s an important thinker too.”–People

In this lively, funny memoir, Peggy Orenstein sets out to make a sweater from scratch–shearing, spinning, dyeing wool–and in the process discovers how we find our deepest selves through craft. Orenstein spins a yarn that will appeal to everyone.

The Covid pandemic propelled many people to change their lives in ways large and small. Some adopted puppies. Others stress-baked. Peggy Orenstein, a lifelong knitter, went just a little further. To keep herself engaged and cope with a series of seismic shifts in family life, she set out to make a garment from the ground up: learning to shear sheep, spin and dye yarn, then knitting herself a sweater.

Orenstein hoped the project would help her process not just wool but her grief over the recent death of her mother and the decline of her dad, the impending departure of her college-bound daughter, and other thorny issues of aging as a woman in a culture that by turns ignores and disdains them. What she didn’t expect was a journey into some of the major issues of our time: climate anxiety, racial justice, women’s rights, the impact of technology, sustainability, and, ultimately, the meaning of home.

With her wry voice, sharp intelligence, and exuberant honesty, Orenstein shares her year-long journey as daughter, wife, mother, writer, and maker–and teaches us all something about creativity and connection.