A spool of blue thread goodreads5/26/2023 I’ve never in my life measured something by the square foot. I’ve lived in apartments my entire life, and lengthy descriptions of houses often make me jittery with stupidity. Part of the problem is that there’s a great deal of time spent describing the family house on Bouton Road. That’s less an implicit bias and more of a cultural exhaustion. When I read the jacket copy, I was worried that I wouldn’t find a good way into Anne Tyler’s A Spool of Blue Thread for the same reason I stopped watching Noah Baumbach movies a few years ago: Time is finite and I simply cannot fill my life to the brim with stories about neurotic white people. Known connections to this year’s contenders: “None.” She lives in the “not Brooklyn” part of New York City. Danielle Henderson is a new TV writer and old freelancer.
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