Redhead by the side of the road / Anne Tyler.
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TextPublisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2020Edition: First editionDescription: 177 pages ; 25 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780525658412Subject(s): Man-woman relationships -- Fiction | Fathers and sons -- Fiction | Life change events -- FictionGenre/Form: Domestic fiction. DDC classification: 813/.54 LOC classification: PS3570.Y45 | R43 2020Summary: 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.
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| TYLE The beginner's goodbye : | TYLE A spool of blue thread | TYLE Clock dance / | TYLE Redhead by the side of the road / | TYLE French braid / | UNGE Beautiful lies | UNGE In the blood |
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.
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