5/29/2023 0 Comments A spool of blue thread reviewWe meet Red and Abby Whitshank in 1994, when they receive a typically disorienting phone call from their 19-year-old son, Denny, who makes a startling announcement and then hangs up. Nonetheless, the Big Topics are here: aging, death, greed, jealousy, the uses and abuses of love. “A Spool of Blue Thread” is firmly rooted in the particular circumstances of its characters, who don’t go in for fancy talk about abstract issues. In such midcareer masterpieces as “Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant” and in recent works like “Digging to America,” Tyler has proved again and again that a chronicle of middle-class family life in Baltimore can illuminate the human condition as acutely as any novel of ideas, albeit with a more modest demeanor. Over the course of 20 novels, Anne Tyler’s artistry has become so assured and invisible that her books often read less like fiction than dispatches from the real world.
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