Anne Tyler, the Narrator of American families, usually in Baltimore. Why, oh why do her Novels have to end? The genuineness of the characters made me care about them immensely, even the Big Old House! In many ways "A Spool of Blue Thread" is as much the story of a house, as a family, across three generations. Four generations—Junior and Linnie Mae; Abby, Red, and Merrick; Abby and Red’s children; and their grandchildren, are explored largely inside this Baltimore house on Bouton Road with an impressive, spacious front porch. Elegiac and engrossing, sweeping and vivid, this stirring account, which we have come to cherish from Anne, gives us characters we can relate to, love, and miss at the end. this Novel should be on the same as To Kill A Mockingbird. An American classic by an American classic!