![]() They love to imagine how they appear to others they don’t really know, like those neighbors who wave at them from their beach house every summer. They revel in the bonds of their tight-knit group, though they are no less susceptible than any other family to the ebb and flow of irritation, resentment, jealousy, anger, estrangement and frustration. Maybe that’s because the Whitshanks - Abby and Red and their four adult children, three of whom live within a few miles of their parents - see themselves as special even if they’re not. Warm, charming and emotionally radiant, it surely must be counted as among Tyler’s best. Their leanness was the rawboned kind, not the lithe, athletic slenderness of people in magazine ads, and something a little too sharp in their faces suggested that while they themselves were eating just fine, perhaps their forefathers had not.”Īnd yet this ordinary Baltimore family makes A Spool of Blue Thread the sort of novel that’s hard to disentangle yourself from. And in looks, they were no more than average. None of them could claim exceptional intelligence. ![]() “There was nothing remarkable about the Whitshanks,” she writes. ![]() ![]() $25.95.Īnne Tyler assures us that there’s nothing special about the family around whom she has built her latest novel. ![]()
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