If you’ve already sobbed your way through A Spool of Blue Thread, dry your tears on these other books. Will you cry by the end of A Spool of Blue Thread? That’s not even the question, it’s how much will you cry? Abby, the heart of the story and the Whitshanks themselves, is not well, and Tyler treats her steadily decaying mind with both respect and unsentimental frankness. The novel presents a large portrait of these many Whitshanks - occasionally even zipping back in time to introduce us to other relatives, including even Abby’s parents – and while reading about their various connections would be enjoyable enough, A Spool of Blue Thread eventually edges up on serious, heartbreaking territory. It’s not that it’s hard to resist falling in love with the Whitshank family, occasionally fractured and dramatic as they may be, but that it’s almost impossible to not believe, at least while reading the novel, that you just might be a member of the clan.Ī Spool of Blue Thread covers big swathes of the Whitshank family tree, but all roots go back to Abby, wife to Red and mother to Denny, Stem, Amanda, and Jeannie, and grandmother to a mess of little ones. The author has always excelled at capturing the minutiae of normal life - especially as that applies to the lives of big, sprawling families - and her latest novel is no exception. Tylers twentieth novel finds fresh fictional riches in imaginative territory she has been exploring for half a century.
With her 20th novel (20th!!!!), A Spool of Blue Thread, Tyler continues to sew together stories about the mundane and turn them into something approaching the magical. : A Spool of Blue Thread: A novel (9780804194723) by Tyler, Anne and a great selection of similar New, Used and Collectible Books available now at great prices.
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