In the family of Fraskita Karasko, a mysterious box has been passed down from mother to daughter since time immemorial, and each finds her special unique gift within it. Fraskita discovered threads and needles; her gift is sewing.
She not only transforms old rags into the most beautiful wedding dress but can also reconnect a person with the shadow that has left them, reviving a torn-to-shreds fighting rooster by stitching it back together.
And each of the five daughters will someday receive a strange, beautiful, terrifying gift that will bring both happiness and sorrow to her.
It is no wonder that in the village, people consider Fraskita a witch and avoid her, fear her yet still feel drawn to her. But one day, Fraskita will have to leave her native village with her children to wander through Spain and then beyond its borders, bringing the world both wonder and curse.
"Stitched Heart" is a captivatingly beautiful, vivid, imaginative tale that you immerse yourself in from the very first lines, and it will be impossible to emerge from it. Karol Martinez's novel is that same magical realism that stitches fantasy and reality together tightly and seamlessly.
