The force of creative nature known as Candace Hicks has now produced 142 intricately hand-embroidered containing magnificent illustrations and a never-ending cascade of texts documenting her life in a universe of literary and pop-cultural coincidences. The threading of this narrative just grows more and more complex as Hicks, a voracious reader and unsatiable consumer of televsion and movies, focuses’s her ample talents and intelligence on macabre storylines related to Hansel and Gretel, umbrellas, and opossums.