The Quilt

My first read from Davis Bunn left me un-wowed as the ending on this is rather flat. In a nondescript small town in a nondescript era sometime between ww2 and the end of the century, an elderly woman approaches the end of her life. The townspeople love her but her family, while faithful to visit, doesn't seem to know her well and one son even proposes to “put her in an old people's home” because she decides God told her to make a quilt. The quilt does bring some people together to pray but the ending seems abrupt. I had difficulty believing in the turns of events near the end and everything happened very quickly, with the spiritual application of the quilt's reason being only dimly implied and the lesson unclear.