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 ...

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 feeling of loss permeates Anne Tyler’s new novel like smoke, faintly smudging the page. In “A Spool of Blue Thread” (Doubleday, $25.95, 368 pages), the author’s 20th novel and among her finest, ...

You don't read Anne Tyler to have your worldview expanded, or to be kept awake at night anxiously turning pages. You read, instead, for the cozy mildness, the comfort of sinking into each new ...

How does she do it? Each time I come to the end of a novel by Anne Tyler, I find myself asking this question. How does she do it? How does she construct such a complex narrative out of such simple ...

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After the success of David Simon’s The Wire, Baltimore became associated — for many television fans at least — with derelict high rises, African American teenagers who seemed perpetually doomed to a ...

This review was originally published on February 7 2015 and has been republished to mark the author's nomination for the Man Booker Prize 2015 'Like most families,” Anne Tyler says of the Whitshanks, ...