I’ve not previously read Anne Tyler, though she’s published 23 super popular novels. Three times nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
Her 2020 book is Redhead by the Side of the Road.
A slow paced, entertaining slice of life.
Micah … runs Tech Hermit and runs around the neighbourhood fixing computer problems for old ladies who – and you’d be right to bet Tyler mines this for full comic potential – don’t know what a modem is or does. …
He lives rent-free, alone, keeps to himself and sticks to a routine “etched in stone”: Friday is vacuuming day, Monday floor-mopping, and so on. Even his relationship with his “restful to look at” teacher girlfriend has, by his own admission, “solidified”. …
Micah’s peaceful life gets blown up.
Rick McCharles 