“The trouble with dying,” a mother says in Anne Tyler’s new novel, “is that you don’t get to see how everything turns out. You won’t know the ending.” “But, Mom,” replies her daughter, “there is no ...

Anne Tyler's deeply moving new novel, A Spool of Blue Thread, explores three generations of the Whitshank family in Baltimore, exposing the raw nerves, hurt feelings and deep love that bind them ...

The feeling of loss permeates Anne Tyler’s new novel like smoke, faintly smudging the page. In “A Spool of Blue Thread” (Doubleday, $25.95, 368 pages), the author’s 20th novel and among her finest, ...

Anne Tyler uses wit and a homely minor key to reel the reader into a gripping domestic saga A Spool of Blue Thread By Anne Tyler, Knopf, 368 pages, $25.95 Breathing Lessons was the name of Anne ...

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Anne Tyler is back in Baltimore, among the middle-class families that have been her domain for five decades. A Spool of Blue Thread, her 20th novel, is not her best, but it features some characters ...

Late one July evening in 1994, Red and Abby Whitshank had a phone call from their son Denny. They were getting ready for bed at the time. Abby was standing at the bureau in her slip, drawing hairpins ...

"A Spool of Blue Thread,'' the newest novel by Pulitzer Prize winner Anne Tyler, is a thoughtful and intriguing study of the role of memory in creating and destroying the stories we tell ourselves ...

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. In such midcareer masterpieces ...

“A Spool of Blue Thread” follows four generations of the Whitshank clan, from the grandparents newly arrived in Baltimore in the 1920s to their children and grandchildren who bring the family into the ...

After the success of David Simon’s The Wire, Baltimore became associated — for many television fans at least — with derelict high rises, African American teenagers who seemed perpetually doomed to a ...

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