Hooked: How Crafting Saved my Life by Sutton Foster

 

 Hooked: How Crafting Saved my Life by Sutton Foster. Grand Central Publishing, 2021. Adult memoir.

Broadway and television star Sutton Foster tells her life story and describes her close relationship with crafting. She took up cross stitch to escape the "mean girls" in the chorus when she was young and because her mom also did cross stitch. She learned to crochet and began making blankets for her grandfather and others. She used wood and paper to craft items for her walls. While she really does not give many patterns or directions and no photographs at all, it is easy reading and moves along the timeline of shows, marriage, divorce, marriage, and motherhood. Interestingly, her parents were hugely supportive of her career and her brother is also an actor who has starred on Broadway. The family has its ups and downs, but therapy has helped Foster deal with the death of her mother and many other situations and feelings.