![]() The house is the constant thread between the generations. There are three main characters in this superb novel: Abby, her son Denny, and the house. Four generations have lived in or close to the family home: Junior, whose construction business built it, and who loved it so passionately that he deceived the man who bought it into selling it back to him Red, Junior’s son, and his wife Abby their now mid-life children, and those children’s new and growing families. The sharpness of her observations, even her description of a typical family meal, are often joyously funny.Ī Spool of Blue Thread is about the Whitshank family, middle-class and living in the Baltimore suburbs. ![]() For 50 years now she has chronicled American family life in middle-class Baltimore, where she lives.Īll her books are family stories, deceptively gentle, and yet she gets right to the heart of the good and the bad, how each member subtly reacts to the others, and shows all the deep antagonistic emotions which all families try to bury.īut her books – though certainly moving at times – are not sad essentially Tyler is a comic novelist. ![]() ![]() Anne Tyler has long been one of my favourite authors. ![]()
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