St. Marys Community Public Library is featuring Spool of Blue Thread by New York Times bestselling author Anne Tyler in a discussion on Thursday, February 9th, 2023. The discussion will be from 6:00 pm to 7:00 pm in the library meeting room. Books are available at the library for checking out and reading prior to the discussion.
“It was a beautiful, breezy, yellow-and-green afternoon. . . . ” This is how Abby Whitshank always describes the day she fell in love with Red in July 1959. The Whitshanks are one of those families that radiate an indefinable kind of specialness, but like all families, their stories reveal only part of the picture: Abby and Red and their four grown children have accumulated not only tender moments, laughter, and celebrations, but also jealousies, disappointments, and carefully guarded secrets. From Red’s parents, newly arrived in Baltimore in the 1920s, to the grandchildren carrying the Whitshank legacy boisterously into the twenty-first century, here are four generations of lives unfolding in and around the sprawling, lovingly worn house that has always been their anchor.
“An act of literary enchantment . . . [Anne] Tyler remains among the best chroniclers of family life this country has ever produced.”—The Washington Post
Check out a copy of Spool of Blue Thread at the library for reading prior to the discussion.
