![]() 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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