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” A Spool of Blue Thread ” is a good book that you can read online or download to read it later. Before starting the reading or downloading, here is the summary of the book that you can read.”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 21st 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.

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My enjoyment could also have had something to do with my personal history. As a new college graduate many years ago, the first job that I landed was in Baltimore. I packed my bags and went there knowing absolutely no one who lived there and just the basic facts about the city. My employer recommended a local family who had a room to rent. I could live there until I managed to get myself sorted out. So, I moved into this row house in a middle-class neighborhood and rode the bus to and from work every day. It didn’t take long for me to realize that the job really wasn’t what I wanted. Ultimately, I resigned and found another job that took me to Atlanta, where at least I did have a few friends, but I never forgot that Baltimore family, who could actually have served as models for the Whitshank family in this book. We get to know three generations of the Whitshank family, although not in chronological order. Tyler begins the tale with Abby and Red Whitshank and their four children who live in the family’s beloved family home. It is a unique house that was built by Red’s father, J.R., known to all as Junior, Whitshank. As we learn much later in the story, at age twenty-six, Junior had come to Baltimore from farther south initially to get away from an underaged lover, a girl named Linnie Mae Inman, who he thought was eighteen but later learned was only thirteen. Junior was a talented carpenter and builder and he had dreams of establishing his own business.