![]() ![]() It’s the wealth of brilliantly caught characters that’s her book’s greatest appeal…. Tyler rarely disappoints, but this is her best novel in some time-slender, unassuming, almost cautious in places, yet so very finely and energetically tuned, so apparently relaxed, almost flippantly so, but actually supremely sophisticated.… Tyler’s ability to make you care about her characters is amazing, and never more so than here. His inability to do so suffuses this poignant book with almost unbearable loneliness.Įading this enjoyable novel-her 23rd-it struck me that there can’t be a writer, of either gender, who creates more engaging or multi-dimensional men…. ![]() As in a short story, each observation, each detail, carries meaning… like so many Anne Tyler characters over the years, Micah Mortimer has trouble seeing what is right in front of his eyes. ![]() Tyler’s brief novel covers just a few weeks in Micah’s life and it moves so quickly and seamlessly you might think it slight. A master at the small domestic moments that stand in for large and universal truths, Tyler never disappoints. every quirky character… is a vintage Tyler portrait, fully drawn…. Tyler wastes neither sentence nor scene…. ![]()
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