A Spool of Blue Thread

5 March, 2015
Author: Anne Tyler
Genre: Fiction
Category: New Books

Ann Tyler's greatest achievements lie in her ability to make reading about ordinary life so absorbing and seemingly necessary. This time the story is of the Whitshank family spanning several generations and her wonderful characterization and the detail she gives of their lives is such that you feel you could be reading about your own family. Neither the reviewers nor our readers have failed to enjoy her witty economy and well-tuned irony in this fine novel. Tyler deservedly sits in the upper echelon's of American writers today.