![]() ![]() He is admirably self-contained, speaking in a French accent when he cooks and communicating with traffic gods when he drives perfectly. ![]() He is what he is, and it’s nobody else’s business-not even his affectionate sisters and their husbands can change him. Micah is not unhappy, however, and Tyler does not condescend to portray her protagonist as a loser-loner. ![]() ![]() When he reluctantly visits for a family celebration, he goes through some gentle ribbing about his boring existence. In contrast to his austere life, there is the noisy clan of his three sisters, who believe Micah did not live up to his potential. He has no friends except a lady friend, school teacher Cassie Slade, he occasionally meets, but they live apart. He keeps it spotlessly clean, with an almost OCD-ish strict schedule of cleaning. He has his own one-man computer repair business called Tech Hermit, and works as a handyman in a building, in return for a rent-free basement apartment. Micah is at the stage of life when there are no expectations left, so no complications either. The slim novel is about the placid life of 43-year-old Micah Mortimer being churned by the unexpected arrival of a kid. Anne Tyler’s last two books, Vinegar Girl and Clock Dance were mildly disappointing, but she is back to her A Spool Of Blue Thread form with the intriguingly titled Redhead By The Side Of The Road. ![]()
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