Creative Work Description
This creative nonfiction essay explores the meaning of home, stewardship, and healing through the story of a veteran who restored a neglected house on a hill in Greenville County, South Carolina. Built in the 1950s by another veteran on land once belonging to the Perry family, the home becomes a place of repair for both the structure and the person caring for it. When the roof fails after years of restoration, the author creates a massive quilt to protect the house, transforming scraps of fabric into a signal of distress and resilience. The essay reflects on land, memory, family, and the quiet ways ordinary places hold history and shape identity.
Recommended Citation
Santos, Janny G.
(2026)
"The Quilt on the Roof,"
Persimmon Creek: Vol. 2, Article 18.
Available at:
https://scholarcommons.sc.edu/persimmoncreek/vol2/iss2/18
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