![]() ![]() ![]() Instantly we learn that Micah is a creature of habit as Tyler takes us through his routine that is rigidly regimented from the time of his daily morning run down to the days of the week that he ascribes as which room of the house requires cleaning something that his large and rambunctious family tease him about. Micah Mortimer is a 44 year old tech specialist known as the "Tech Hermit" to his customers, as well as a part time super of the building he lives in as a tenant. Well, the protagonist of her latest novel is so normal that he comes off as unusually so. ![]() One of the things I remember loving about A Spool of Blue Thread was the way that Tyler writes and creates her characters and how very real and therefore normal they feel. I'm glad to say that I thoroughly enjoyed Redhead By The Side Of The Road. ![]() I've never been much of a fan of most books that the Booker prize favours so I only took this as a hint that I might enjoy it. I hadn't heard many positive things about it but that was usually in reference to it being considered as unworthy of being longlisted for the prize. After reading and loving A Spool of Blue Thread some years ago I realised recently that I never again picked up another Anne Tyler book and decided to remedy that at once starting with Redhead By The Side of the Road a book that I had heard of around the time of it's release largely thanks to it being longlisted for the Booker Prize. ![]()
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