![]() Tightly wound, bound to routine, blind to the cues that the universe sends him, in midlife he’s getting lonelier without quite understanding why. ![]() Men such as Macon Leary, the Accidental Tourist who hated leaving home or slow-moving, deliberate Ezra Tull, who ran the Homesick Restaurant and dreamed of giving everyone a home-cooked meal.īut Micah Mortimer in Tyler’s new novel, “Redhead by the Side of the Road,” might be her saddest oddball yet. “Gentle, bumbling men,” a critic for Kirkus Reviews once called them. ![]() Her men are mostly oddball misfits, a little out of step with the world. Tyler’s women are mostly vivacious and chatty, with flyaway hair and a zest for life. ![]() Book by book, over her 55-year career, novelist Anne Tyler has built a literary portrait of Baltimore and populated it with quirky, warmly human characters. ![]()
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