Tuesday, March 31, 2020

2020 book 70

Anne Tyler's Redhead by the Side of the Road
Tyler's latest focuses on a forty-something man, a slave to his routines, whose life is mildly disrupted when a boy shows up at his door with the mistaken belief that the man is his biological father. Look, I know generally not much HAPPENS in an Anne Tyler novel, but usually I love them anyway. This one didn’t grab me. I loved the scenes where the man interacted with his large, boisterous family, but everything else left me flat. I don’t know if I wasn’t feeling the characters, if this was too short to get me invested, or if it just felt pointless all around. I am bummed but I just wasn’t into it. B.

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A review copy was provided by the publisher. This book will be released on April 7th.

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