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A Spool of Blue Thread

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A Spool of Blue Thread

Abby and Red Whitshank, and their four grown children, have accumulated not only tender moments, laughter and celebrations, but also jealousies, disappointments and carefully guarded secrets. From Red’s father and mother, newly arrived in Baltimore in the 1920s, to Abby and Red’s grandchildren carrying the family legacy boisterously into the 21st 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.

A Spool of Blue Thread
by Anne Tyler

  • Publication Date: April 26, 2016
  • Genres: Fiction
  • Paperback: 384 pages
  • Publisher: Ballantine Books
  • ISBN-10: 0553394398
  • ISBN-13: 9780553394399