I love crafting memoirs — Alanna Okun’s The Curse of the Boyfriend Sweater, Kelly Williams Brown’s Easy Crafts for the Insane, and Sutton Foster’s Hooked are all faves — so when @peak_reads recommended Unraveling: What I Learned About Life While Shearing Sheep, Dyeing Wool, and Making the World’s Ugliest Sweater by Peggy Orenstein, I knew I had to pick it up. When I went to log the book on Goodreads and StoryGraph, I noticed some reviewers critiqued Orenstein’s privilege and inaccuracies in the text; while I get where those readers are coming from, it didn’t bother me, perhaps because memoir is inherently a flawed genre. If you’re looking for a comprehensive history, this ain’t it. But it doesn’t claim to be. This is the story of a woman making something when nothing made sense. While fellow crafters will find themselves amused by her self depreciating ventures, I was equally engaged by her exploration of the ways in which our language and culture are tied (lol, pun intended) to fiber