NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • BOOKER PRIZE NOMINEE • From the beloved Pulitzer Prize–winning
author a sparkling novel about misperception second chances and the sometimes elusive power
of human connection. 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.
