![]() ISBN-13: 9781101874271 Summary It was a beautiful, breezy, yellow-and-green afternoon. Announced first printing of 125,000 copies. A Spool of Blue Thread Anne Tyler, 2015 Knopf Doubleday 386 pp. ![]() ![]() Despite this, Tyler does tie these sections together, showing once again that she's a gifted and engrossing storyteller. ![]() The interlude proves jarring for the reader, who at this point has invested plenty of interest in the siblings. As matters come to a head in Abby's life and the lives of her children, the story suddenly switches to an in-depth exploration of Red's parents and Red and Abby's courtship, delving into Whitshank family lore. This causes resentment in Denny, the family's eldest biological son, who is capricious and has been known to drift in and out of their lives. A Spool of Blue Thread by Anne Tyler 90,735 ratings, 3.43 average rating, 10,371 reviews Open Preview A Spool of Blue Thread Quotes Showing 1-30 of 102 The trouble with dying, she’d told Jeannie once, is that you don’t get to see how everything turns out. The youngest son, Stem, adopted as a toddler, moves back into the family house to help care for Abby, who has spells of forgetfulness. ![]() The narrative initially tackles the mounting tensions among the grown Whitshank siblings as their aging parents, Red and Abby, need looking after. Thoroughly enjoyable but incohesive, Tyler's latest chronicles the Whitshank family through several generations in Baltimore, Md. ![]()
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