Penguin Books Anne Tyler - Redhead By The Side Of The Road cene

From the bestselling author of A Spool of Blue Thread: an offbeat love story about missteps, second chances and the elusive art of human connection

Micah Mortimer isnt the most polished person youll ever meet. His numerous sisters and inlaws regard him oddly but very fondly, but he has his ways and means of navigating the world. He measures out his days running errands for work his TECH HERMIT sign cheerily displayed on the roof of his car maintaining an impeccable cleaning regime and going for runs (7:15, every morning). He is content with the steady balance of his life.

But then the order of things starts to tilt. His woman friend Cassia (he refuses to call anyone in her late thirties a girlfriend) tells him shes facing eviction because of a cat. And when a teenager shows up at Micahs door claiming to be his son, Micah is confronted with another surprise he seems poorly equipped to handle.

Redhead by the Side of the Road is an intimate look into the heart and mind of a man who sometimes finds those around him just out of reach and a love story about the differences that make us all unique.