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Book review – Annece Winton Need something to read? A Spool of Blue Thread by Anne Tyler This title will be in the bookshops in May 2015 Many of us are familiar with the writings of Anne Tyler as she has brought us entertaining reads such as The Beginners Goodbye, The Amateur Marriage, Accidental Marriage and Digging to America to name just a few of her 19 previous novels. These novels all look at family life and are set in Baltimore. Her latest novel “A Spool of Blue Thread” is no exception. Picture a middle class American family, as we meet four generations of the Whitshank family However happiness eludes them. When Junior, the founder of this family, who is in construction, sees the plans of a home he is commissioned to build for a businessman, he sets his heart on the home and constructs it to his own high standards and through some mild chicanery eventually acquires the home. Junior is entrapped by a girl half his age who bides her time and eventually gets her man. They have two children, Redcliffe their son and Merrick their daughter. Merrick is the kind of girl who sets her desires on her best friend’s beau whom she is delighted to see comes from the upper echelons of Baltimore society. While Merrick escapes, her brother Red takes over the family construction business and marries Abby who is the self-depreciating type. It is this couple who we get to know best as the family slowly fall apart. The novel opens when Denny their son, calls late one evening to tell Red and Abby he is gay ( he is not) and puts the phone down before they can ask any questions. Denny is a college dropout, irregularly employed and an unmarried and mostly missing father. He is a nomad with no fixed abode and usually out of reach. No one, not his parents or his two sisters or his younger adopted brother can cope with his erratic behaviour let alone his occasional homecomings. His older sister Amanda confronts him with a list of his domestic neglect and shortcomings. But the real reason for his sibling’s angst is that he has “consumed every last drop of his parent’s attention and left nothing for the rest of us”. When Red starts going deaf and then has a heart attack and Abby’s brain starts to “jump the track” the family come together to take over their care. Predictably the “good” son Stem and his wife Nora move into the family home to care for their parents, and no sooner have they done so when the prodigal son, Denny, reappears to take on the responsibility. It is in this situation that we witness resentment, guilt and long buried jealousies as the siblings vie for control. However in the end, goodness triumphs over wickedness and there is no place like home, even if it is not quite perfect. 34
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