A Spool Of Blue Thread

From the beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning author--now in her fiftieth year of a remarkable career--a brilliantly observed, joyful and wrenching, funny and true new novel that reveals the very nature of a family's life. "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. This gathering is different: Abby and Red are growing older, and decisions must be made about how to look after them, and the fate of the house built by Red's father. Brimming with insight, humor, and compassion, this novel takes us across three generations of the Whitshanks, sharing stories and secrets, all unguarded and richly lived moments that define who and what they are as a family.