INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER If ever there was a perfect time for a new Anne Tyler novel
it's now. -People Tyler's novels are always worth scooping up-but especially this gently
amusing soother right now. -NPR From the beloved Anne Tyler a sparkling new 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.
