Maggie Nightingale Library Book Discussion Group

A Spool of Blue Thread by Anne Tyler

New readers are welcome to join this group! The book being discussed for January is A Spool of Blue Thread by Anne Tyler.

Synopsis of A Spool of Blue Thread: "'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.

From Red’s parents, newly arrived in Baltimore in the 1920s, to the grandchildren carrying the Whitshank legacy boisterously into the twenty-first century, 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."

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