Tyler is an American Vermeer whose canvases keep opening whole worlds within compact frames. Tyler’s novels are always worth scooping up.” Heartwarming and very funny-one of Tyler’s best yet.” “If ever there was a perfect time for a new Anne Tyler novel, it’s now-and this one doesn’t disappoint. “Anne Tyler has every gift a great novelist needs: intent observation, empathy and language both direct and surprising. These surprises, and the ways they throw Micah's meticulously organized life off-kilter, risk changing him forever.Īn intimate look into the heart and mind of a man who finds those around him just out of reach, and a funny, joyful, deeply compassionate story about seeing the world through new eyes, Redhead by the Side of the Road is a triumph, filled with Anne Tyler's signature wit and gimlet-eyed observation. A self-employed tech expert, superintendent of his Baltimore apartment building, cautious to a fault behind the steering wheel, he seems content leading a steady, circumscribed life.īut one day his routines are blown apart when his woman friend (he refuses to call anyone in her late thirties a "girlfriend") tells him she's facing eviction, and a teenager shows up at Micah's door claiming to be his son.
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