In the second portion of the book, Pumpkin is an adult, and she is still reacting to her childhood scars and trying to understand her relationship to her parents. The tale of Pumpkin’s childhood is heartbreaking - the neglect and poverty of life with her mother, the longing she has for her father’s love, the aching estrangement she feels from her father’s family. Because of her mother’s drinking problem, her father eventually takes Pumpkin to live with his family, a decision that his wife does not handle well. Her father is a wealthy businessman with a family of his own her mother is an alcoholic who believes that someday Pumpkin’s father will marry her. The novel opens in the 1970s when Pumpkin is a 9-year-old girl.
Set in Zambia, “Patchwork” tells the poignant story of Pumpkin, a bastard child who grows up to become an emotionally tormented woman.
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