![]() ![]() However, even a Tyler fanatic like myself must begrudgingly admit that Redhead is not one of the superior entries in her canon it’s rather slight, and doesn’t really offer readers anything she hasn’t already done better in the past. As someone who lived in Baltimore for many years, I always pay special attention to the locations she mentions-legendary watering hole Swallow at the Hollow makes an appearance in Redhead, and Micah visits a client who lives in one of my old neighborhoods, Rodgers Forge. I have confessed before to being somewhat obsessed with Anne Tyler, and everything about her books fascinates me. “He lives alone he keeps to himself his routine is etched in stone,” she writes in the very first paragraph. And Micah Mortimer, the protagonist of her latest book, Redhead by the Side of the Road, does not break the mold. That character appears in almost every Anne Tyler novel occasionally it’s a woman, but the fussy gentleman, a creature of habit who seems to have stepped out of a much-earlier decade, is definitely a Tyler staple. ![]() Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: a middle-aged man, a resident of Baltimore, leads a strictly regimented and predictable existence, and then a stranger arrives and shakes it up. ![]()
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