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“It was a beautiful, breezy, yellow-and-green afternoon. . .” This is how Abby Whitshank always begins the story of how she fell in love with Red that day in July 1959. The Whitshanks are one of those families that radiate togetherness: an indefinable, enviable kind of specialness. But they are also like all families, in that the stories they tell themselves reveal only part of the picture. Abby and Red and their four grown children have accumulated not only tender moments, laughter, and celebrations, but also jealousies, disappointments, and carefully guarded secrets. From Red’s father and mother, newly arrived in Baltimore in the 1920s, to Abby and Red’s grandchildren carrying the family legacy boisterously into the twenty-first century, here are four generations of Whitshanks, their lives unfolding in and around the sprawling, lovingly worn Baltimore house that has always been their anchor.
Hardcover: 368 pages
Publisher: Knopf; 1St Edition edition (February 10, 2015)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1101874279
ISBN-13: 978-1101874271
MY THOUGHTS: This was a really awesome book. But for the life of me I couldn't figure out what the title meant. There wasn't anything about blue thread......but then I got to the last few pages of the book and there it was. And then the title made prefect sense. This book is all about family. The first half of the book is about Abby and Red raising their kids. The second half of the book takes you back to Red's parents. It kind of dwells on the house they live in. How they got the house and the up keep of the house. I give this book 5.....
This book is also for 3 of my reading challenges.
Color Coded Reading Challenge/color blue
Full House Reading Challenge/color in title
52 Books in 52 Weeks/week 4
I have wanted to try reading Anne Tyler for awhile now and have noticed this book around. Good to know you recommend it.
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