![]() ![]() This is how Abby Whitshank always begins the story of how she fell in love with Red that day in July 1959. ISBN-13: 9781101874271 Summary It was a beautiful, breezy, yellow-and-green afternoon. And then we learn, incredibly, that Denny's daughter Susan is not his biological child! His ex-wife Carla must have boned another guy! No wonder their marriage fell apart, with both Denny and Carla being boned by other men. A Spool of Blue Thread by Anne Tyler: 9780553394399 : Books NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The story of four generations of lives unfolding in and around the sprawling, lovingly worn house that has always been. A Spool of Blue Thread Anne Tyler, 2015 Knopf Doubleday 386 pp. It's just another indicator how set apart Denny is from the rest of the family. ![]() This surprises everyone, as they never knew he had gone to college. He casually tells them he finished college. Later, they find Abby wandering outside during a fierce rainstorm. His name was really Douglas but Abby called him Stem because you could put your hand around his neck and snap it so easily. But Abby and Red never formally adopted him, they just kept him around informally and this informal arrangement became his life. Stem was adopted when his Dad died and his Mom disappeared. ![]() When Abby is discovered wandering around on the streets in her nightgown, Stem, her adopted son, decided to move in with her. Amanda gets them a housekeeper but when she starts a fire she doesn't last long. ![]()
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