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Redhead by the Side of the Road
by Anne Tyler
this book makes me feel so perceived that my immediate instinct is to dig a very deep hole in the ground and go sit inside of it for several years.
There is something of this book that reminds me of andrew sean greer’s less. It’s a warm, Austenian tale with relatively little in the way of plot about a man who is trying so hard not to make mistakes that he has very little left to live for. In the hands of a less skillful writer, or even just a writer less fervently compassionate, this would become somewhat dark and almost certainly condemnatory / moralistic. This book is none of those things. It is funny, it is generous, & it is deeply kind. Also (& this is simply my opinion), the main character has autism. Sometimes the way you are makes you feel so absolutely incapable of true human connection (let alone enmeshment) that you briefly believe a fire hydrant is a redhead on the side of the road.
There is something of this book that reminds me of andrew sean greer’s less. It’s a warm, Austenian tale with relatively little in the way of plot about a man who is trying so hard not to make mistakes that he has very little left to live for. In the hands of a less skillful writer, or even just a writer less fervently compassionate, this would become somewhat dark and almost certainly condemnatory / moralistic. This book is none of those things. It is funny, it is generous, & it is deeply kind. Also (& this is simply my opinion), the main character has autism. Sometimes the way you are makes you feel so absolutely incapable of true human connection (let alone enmeshment) that you briefly believe a fire hydrant is a redhead on the side of the road.