![]() ![]() A book about women trading a culture of corporate ladders for one of reclaimed wood barn ladders - swapping Botox needles for sewing needles - begs for reportorial embedding.īut that isn't Homeward's major problem. Unfortunately, Emily Matchar's survey of the rise of hipster handicrafts, Homeward Bound: Why Women Are Embracing the New Domesticity, is bound to the newspaper-trend-story style: Lots of secondary and even primary research (she conducted hundreds of interviews), but not a lot of colorful, grad-student-turned-goat-farmer narrative. When curling up with a book about the resurgence of the domestic arts, a reader yearns to tuck under the covers with these twenty- and thirtysomething quilters, cozy up alongside these neo-knitters, break literary bread with these latter-day, millet-grinding artisanal bakers. ![]()
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