The Whitshanks have four children: Amanda, Jeannie, Denny, and Stem. A Spool of Blue Thread revolves around Red and Abby Whitshank and their home on Bouton Street in Baltimore. She loves to present her readers, not exactly with “dysfunctional” families - it’s not usually that grim - but with flawed families, people who can’t see their own mistakes and patterns, people who are trying to do their best and often miss the mark.Īnd here we are again with the Whitshank family. I’m fairly sure if she set out to write about something else - water rights, for instance, in the Southwest - she’d wind up writing about the ranchers’ parents and grandparents and siblings and in-laws, and we’d know their birth order before the end of the first chapter. It’s Anne Tyler’s thing to write about families.
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