He is content with the steady balance of his life.

Like some kind of, like, secret sign (456). The exact color of thread needed falls into his hands, unsettling him: I almost imagined that she was handing it to me. After Abby Whitshank’s death, her son Denny looks for thread to repair his father’s shirt. He measures out his days running errands for work - his TECH HERMIT sign cheerily displayed on the roof of his car - maintaining an impeccable cleaning regime and going for runs (7:15, every morning). The spool of blue thread, from which the book’s title takes its name, represents connection. His numerous sisters and in-laws regard him oddly but very fondly, but he has his ways and means of navigating the world. Micah Mortimer isn't the most polished person you'll ever meet. The whole family on the porch, half-listening as their mother tells the same tale they have heard so many times before.From that porch we spool back through the generations, witnessing the events, secrets and unguarded moments that have come to define the family. A Spool of Blue Thread, Tylers 20th novel, wears its domesticity proudly on its sleeve (or make that jacket).

A Spool of Blue Thread: This is the way Abby Whitshank always begins the story of how she and. This is the way Abby Whitshank always begins the story of how she and Red fell in love that summer’s day in 1959. Each time, Willa ended up on a path laid out for her by others. Each time, Willa ended up on a path laid out for her by others. Willa Drake can count on one hand the defining moments of her life: her mother’s disappearance when she was just a child, being proposed to at an airport at the age of twenty-one, the accident that would leave her a widow in her forties.

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