Anne Tyler loves the everyday. With her 20th novel (20th!!!!), A Spool of Blue Thread, Tyler continues to sew together stories about the mundane and turn them into something approaching the magical.

“The trouble with dying,” a mother says in Anne Tyler’s new novel, “is that you don’t get to see how everything turns out. You won’t know the ending.” “But, Mom,” replies her daughter, “there is no ...

Anne Tyler’s “A Spool of Blue Thread,” the 20th novel by the Pultizer Prize-winning author, is loaded with ideas and potentially fascinating storylines that are extended throughout the book but ...

Anne Tyler uses wit and a homely minor key to reel the reader into a gripping domestic saga A Spool of Blue Thread By Anne Tyler, Knopf, 368 pages, $25.95 Breathing Lessons was the name of Anne ...

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Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. As I settled in to Anne Tyler’s A Spool of Blue Thread, I recognised with a shiver of delight the same feelings — ...

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There was a time when the favorite way to put down Anne Tyler was to refer to her novels as “middlebrow.” Particularly in the 1980s, a decade of triumphs that began with “Morgan’s Passing” and ...