Anne Tyler uses wit and a homely minor key to reel the reader into a gripping domestic saga A Spool of Blue Thread By Anne Tyler, Knopf, 368 pages, $25.95 Breathing Lessons was the name of Anne ...

Anne Tyler’s “A Spool of Blue Thread,” the 20th novel by the Pultizer Prize-winning author, is loaded with ideas and potentially fascinating storylines that are extended throughout the book but ...

“The trouble with dying,” a mother says in Anne Tyler’s new novel, “is that you don’t get to see how everything turns out. You won’t know the ending.” “But, Mom,” replies her daughter, “there is no ...

Anne Tyler loves the everyday. With her 20th novel (20th!!!!), A Spool of Blue Thread, Tyler continues to sew together stories about the mundane and turn them into something approaching the magical.

Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Anne Tyler's new novel, her 20th in half a century of published work, is set to be her last, according to the author. Alice Munro, ...

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Anne Tyler published her first novel in 1964, and some 50 years later she is still going strong. "A Spool of Blue Thread," her 20th novel, is a miracle of sorts, a tender, touching and funny story ...

Anne Tyler's deeply moving new novel, A Spool of Blue Thread, explores three generations of the Whitshank family in Baltimore, exposing the raw nerves, hurt feelings and deep love that bind them ...

A Spool of Blue Thread, the latest — and, quite possibly, final — novel of Anne Tyler’s long, acclaimed career, feels like a book that devotees already know well. It presents the story of the ...

"A Spool of Blue Thread,'' the newest novel by Pulitzer Prize winner Anne Tyler, is a thoughtful and intriguing study of the role of memory in creating and destroying the stories we tell ourselves ...