A SPOOL OF BLUE THREAD

This is the way Abby Whitshank always begins the story of how she and Red fell in love that summers day in 1959. The whole family o n 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. From Reds father and mother, newly arrived in Baltimore in the 1920s, to Abby and Reds grandchildren carrying the family legacy boisterously into t he twenty-fi...[Llegir més]