Hello, friend. My name is Isabel Good. I married into that name, but my ex-husband... let's just say he wasn't, um, good. Seventeen years, two kids, and one overpriced attorney later, I'm newly divorced and trying to figure out what "normal" looks like when the life you built has collapsed and you're standing in the rubble holding a casserole dish.

I have two teenagers who are simultaneously the joy of my life and the bane of my existence. Since the split, they've been processing their feelings the way teenagers do.  Heaven help me because their father won't.

I'm currently job-hunting, but the market isn't exactly clamoring for a homemaker with a dusty college degree and a gift for colorwork knitting. If I'd seen this coming, I would've spent my spare time building a Mommy Blog empire instead of knitting items for gifts and charities.

I'll be honest with you:  I'm a little lost.

So when the jury summons landed in my mailbox, I thought a day or two of civic duty sounded like a good reason to get out of the house. I couldn't have imagined it would change the trajectory of my life.

Here's something most people don't know about knitting:  it rewires your brain. Years of tracking complex patterns across hundreds of tiny stitches sharpens your concentration and your powers of observation to something approaching supernatural. I notice things other people don't and turns out, that's pretty important in the trial of the decade.

After years of being overlooked and underestimated, I've decided it's time to make a little noise. Wanna come with?

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