His womanfriend, Cass, who apparently leads a mostly separate life, may face eviction. Two singular Redhead by the Side of the Road events disrupt Micah’s strictly controlled regime. Eighty dollars, he charges for a house call. Micah is the man little old ladies call when they can’t make the printer print or when the internet suddenly disappears. He has two jobs-one, managing a cubicle apartment building in return for free lodging in its dingy basement, the other, as the self-employed “Tech Hermit.” The latter involves solving people’s computer problems large and small. He has a defined set of tasks for every day of the week.
“He lives alone he keeps to himself his routine is etched in stone.” He starts every morning with a run. Her brief novel, a novella really, looks at Micah through a lens of love. Micah Mortimer is the focus of Tyler’s literary pictures, a sharp focus that brings a simple, complicated man to life. Each snapshot of him tells its own unique story, while the whole collection of photos embraces both the fullness and the emptiness of his bachelor days. Reading Anne Tyler’s novel, Redhead by the Side of the Road, is rather like paging through an album of family photographs, searching for pictures of a favorite, eccentric but lovable, middle-aged uncle.
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