01724cam a2200241 4500 552992698 TxAuBib 20200413120000.0 190621|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2019026099 9780385694858 0385694857 9780525658412 0525658416 (OCoLC)1105737438 DLC eng rda DLC BDX YDX DLC HSA TxAuBib Tyler, Anne. Redhead by the side of the road. Redhead by the side of the road / Anne Tyler. First edition. `177 pages 24 cm. "From the beloved and best-selling 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"-- 20200413.