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Redhead by the Side of the Road

Anne Tyler

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#6642 of 8,085 books · #2735 in Fiction

Longlisted for the Booker Prize (2020).

Redhead by the Side of the Road was a New York Times bestseller and Booker Prize nominee. 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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Publisher
Chatto & Windus
ISBN-13
9780525658429
Genre
Fiction
Topics
Self-discovery and changeHuman connection and relationshipsEveryday life

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