Anne Tyler’s 20th novel, A Spool of Blue Thread was published back in 2015 and subsequently nominated for both the Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction and the Man Booker Prize the same year. Following the Whitshank family through three generations of life in Baltimore, it’s a sort of (largely) plot-free, rambling look at American familial life that bounces back and forth in time in a free-flowing, relaxed story of everyday life. It centers around the middle generation of Red and Abby, branching off to take closer looks at their children and at Red’s parents but always coming back to the pair of them.
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