He is infinitely patient with his elderly clients, going round to reboot computers and routers. His family teases him about his finicky household habits and he accepts the teasing with good grace. Hers are not plot-driven page-turning books, they are thoughtful portraits of people who seem to be like us – they chop vegetables and mop the kitchen floor, like Micah Mortimer, an unmarried 44 year old self-employed IT specialist and janitor of his apartment block. Why? Because she writes about what it is like to be human, the everyday things, the ticks, the habits, the way we are and the subtle ways we change. Her latest Redhead by the Side of the Road is slim, at 180 pages, but a delight. Anne Tyler is one of my favourite writers, so elegantly understated, so spot-on with her characters.
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