Redhead by the Side of the Road

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • BOOKER PRIZE NOMINEE • From the beloved Pulitzer Prize–winning author a sparkling 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.