![]() ![]() Tyler is an American Vermeer whose canvases keep opening whole worlds within compact frames. Few writers flesh out the malaise of middle age with such delicate, assured strokes. About Press Copyright Contact us Creators Advertise Developers Terms Privacy Policy & Safety How YouTube works Test new features NFL Sunday Ticket Press Copyright. With his love life on the skids, Micah realizes his self-sufficiency has come at a cost: He’s actually lonely. ![]() Tyler is a keen-eyed but tenderhearted social observer whose heroes and heroines are frequently allergic to change, even when it’s for the best. So too with Micah, who’s survived up to now by not examining his life too closely. In all her work, Tyler places protagonists in situations that force them out of their well-worn comfort zones. But his routine ruptures when Cass is evicted from her sublet and Brink, a young college student he’s never met, shows up on his doorstep, claiming to be his son. Micah paces through his daily regime efficiently, content to stay year after year in his sparsely furnished basement apartment, interrupted periodically by phone calls from his Tech Hermit clients or to share takeout with his “woman friend,” Cass. ![]() Her entrancing 23rd novel, Redhead by the Side of the Road, features an everyman protagonist, 43-year-old Micah Mortimer, a never-married computer consultant and building super in Baltimore whose future should have added up to more. ![]()
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