The Friday Night Knitting Club by Kate Jacobs

Goodreads Synopsis:
Walker and Daughter is Georgia Walker's little yarn shop, tucked into a quiet storefront on Manhattan's Upper West Side. The Friday Night Knitting Club was started by some of Georgia's regulars, who gather once a week to work on their latest projects and to chat-and occasionally clash-over their stories of love, life, and everything in between.

Georgia has her hands full, juggling the demands of running the store and raising her spunky teen daughter, Dakota, by herself. Thank goodness for Anita, her mentor and dear friend, and the rest of the members of the knitting club-who are just as varied as the skeins of yarn in the shop's bins. There's Peri, a prelaw student turned handbag designer; Darwin, a somewhat aloof feminist grad student; and Lucie, a petite, quiet woman who's harboring some secrets of her own.

However, unexpected changes soon throw these women's lives into disarray, and the shop's comfortable world gets shaken up like a snow globe. James, Georgia's ex, decides that he wants to play a larger role in Dakota's life-and possibly Georgia's as well. Cat, a former friend from high school, returns to New York as a rich Park Avenue wife and uneasily renews her old bond with Georgia. Meanwhile, Anita must confront her growing (and reciprocated) feelings for Marty, the kind neighborhood deli owner. And when the unthinkable happens, they realize what they've created: not just a knitting club, but a sisterhood.

My thoughts:
I liked this book. It wasn't really what I was expecting. My friend recommended this book to me forever ago. I had been putting it off for one reason or another ever since. I can't say I had a valid reason for it. I am glad to say that I dug this book. I liked the variety of female voices with a common hobby; therefore, a common thread going through each story. I liked the voice of Georgia. She reminded me of my Mother in a few ways. My Mom has owned her own business for over 33 years now. My Mother, was not a single Mom so she didn't have that set of hardships to deal with. But the personality between Georgia and my own Mom was similar.
I liked that this club became a support system for each of the ladies in the story. I think it is important for adult women to maintain connections not just with family or work but other women as well.

I would recommend this to pink book readers and anyone who wants to be pleasantly surprised by a book.

While writing this review I was listening to Mya - Ghetto Supastar