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A Spool of Blue Thread: A Novel
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Author:
Anne Tyler
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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2015
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Anne Tyler. (2015). A Spool of Blue Thread: A Novel. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group.

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Anne Tyler. 2015. A Spool of Blue Thread: A Novel. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group.

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Anne Tyler, A Spool of Blue Thread: A Novel. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2015.

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Anne Tyler. A Spool of Blue Thread: A Novel. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2015. Web.

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER | SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE

"It was a beautiful, breezy, yellow-and-green afternoon. . . . " This is how Abby Whitshank always describes the day she fell in love with Red in July 1959. The Whitshanks are one of those families that radiate an indefinable kind of specialness, but like all families, their stories 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 Red's parents, newly arrived in Baltimore in the 1920s, to the grandchildren carrying the Whitshank legacy boisterously into the twenty-first century, here are four generations of lives unfolding in and around the sprawling, lovingly worn house that has always been their anchor.
NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY PEOPLE AND USA TODAY | NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Washington Post • NPR • Chicago Tribune

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