Redhead by the Side of the Road: A novel
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - BOOKER PRIZE NOMINEE - From the beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning author, a sparkling novel about misperception, second chances, and the sometimes elusive power of human connection.
Micah Mortimer is a creature of habit. 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. But 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. These surprises, and the ways they throw Micah's meticulously organized life off-kilter, risk changing him forever. An 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.
Micah Mortimer is a creature of habit. 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. But 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. These surprises, and the ways they throw Micah's meticulously organized life off-kilter, risk changing him forever. An 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.
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Perhaps I am a little bit of a sucker but I can't help that I loved this book.
Update: It's been 2 years and I don't remember a thing about this book. Vaguely recall the main character fixes home computers for a living. Man called Ove vibes maybe?
Update: It's been 2 years and I don't remember a thing about this book. Vaguely recall the main character fixes home computers for a living. Man called Ove vibes maybe?
I'm getting older.
I am getting older in the sense that I don't like going to big events anymore. For example, a concert sounds terrible because I don't want to be around a bunch of rowdy drunk folks who splash beer on my nice "going out" top. In the sense where I talk about the terrible music "these days" and reminisce about previous decades - decades being decidedly plural.
I am getting older in the sense that a book that could have seemed incr...read more
I am getting older in the sense that I don't like going to big events anymore. For example, a concert sounds terrible because I don't want to be around a bunch of rowdy drunk folks who splash beer on my nice "going out" top. In the sense where I talk about the terrible music "these days" and reminisce about previous decades - decades being decidedly plural.
I am getting older in the sense that a book that could have seemed incr...read more
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