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A SPOOL OF BLUE THREAD
By: Anne Tyler
Knopf
February 2015
On Sale: February 10, 2015
368 pages
ISBN: 1101874279
EAN: 9781101874271
Kindle: B00MSS0WVY
Hardcover / e-Book
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Historical | Literature and Fiction
βIt was a beautiful, breezy, yellow-and-green afternoon. . .β This is how Abby Whitshank always begins the story of how she fell in love with Red that day in July 1959. The Whitshanks are one of those families that radiate togetherness: an indefinable, enviable kind of specialness. But they are also like all families, in that the stories they tell themselves reveal only part of the picture. Abby and Red and their four grown children have accumulated not only tender moments, laughter, and celebrations, but also jealousies, disappointments, and carefully guarded secrets. From Redβs father and mother, newly arrived in Baltimore in the 1920s, to Abby and Redβs grandchildren carrying the family legacy boisterously into the twenty-first century, here are four generations of Whitshanks, their lives unfolding in and around the sprawling, lovingly worn Baltimore house that has always been their anchor. Brimming with all the insight, humor, and generosity of spirit that are the hallmarks of Anne Tylerβs work, A Spool of Blue Thread tells a poignant yet unsentimental story in praise of family in all its emotional complexity. It is a novel to cherish.
 Media BuzzDiane Rehm Show - NPR - November 26, 2015
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