A spool of blue thread
(Book)

Bklst 12/01/2014

LJ 02/01/2015

PW 12/01/2014

Kirkus 11/14/2014

"'It was a beautiful, breezy, yellow-and-green afternoon…' This is how Abby Whitshank always describes the day she fell in love with Red in July 1959. From Red’s parents, newly arrived in Baltimore in the 1920s, to the grandchildren carrying the Whitshank legacy boisterously into the twenty-first century, the Whitshanks are one of those families that radiate an indefinable kind of specialness, but like all families, their stories 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." --publisher's website