02289cam a2200433 i 4500 623680490 TxAuBib 20150303120000.0 140801s2015||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780804194723 soft cover 0804194726 soft cover (OCoLC)885228496 BTCTA eng rda BTCTA BDX TEFBT INO TEFBT ABG IUK OJ4 TXKPL TJT TxAuBib rda Tyler, Anne, author. A spool of blue thread : a novel / Anne Tyler. First large print edition. New York : Random House Large Print, [2015] 549 pages (large print) ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "It was a beautiful, breezy, yellow-and-green afternoon." This is the way Abby Whitshank always begins the story of how she fell in love with Red that day in July 1959. The whole family--their two daughters and two sons, their grandchildren, even their faithful old dog--is on the porch, listening contentedly as Abby tells the tale they have heard so many times before. And yet this gathering is different too: Abby and Red are growing older, and decisions must be made about how best to look after them, and the fate of the house so lovingly built by Red's father. Brimming with the luminous insight, humor, and compassion that are Anne Tyler's hallmarks, this capacious novel takes us across three generations of the Whitshanks, their shared stories and long-held secrets, all the unguarded and richly lived moments that combine to define who and what they are as a family. 20150303. New York Times Best Sellers, 2015. Reminiscing Fiction. Grandparent and child Fiction. Reminiscing in old age Fiction. Grandparents Fiction. Families Fiction. Married people Fiction. Older people Fiction. Storytelling Fiction. Baltimore (Md) Fiction. Best seller. Large type book. Domestic fiction. Fiction. TXKPL