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A Spool of Blue Thread
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Deeply moving portrait of a very normal, everyday family.

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Apr 21, 2015 rated it it was amazing
The is a book about the Whitshank Family of Baltimore. You begin with the current generation – Red and Abby and their four grown children, and go back a ways to Red’s dad and mother (Junior and Linnie May) and the generation before that. And the plot is a simple one – how this family grows and how relationships develop and change over the years. Nothing out of the ordinary. But Tyler has a knack of helping you get to know these folks – and you wind up caring deeply about them. And you relate to ...more