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"Micah Mortimer is a creature of habit. A self-employed tech expert, superintendent of his Baltimore apartment building, cautious to a fault behind the steering wheel, he seems content leading a steady, circumscribed life. But one day his routines are blown apart when his woman friend (he refuses to call anyone in her late thirties a 'girlfriend') tells him she's facing eviction, and a teenager shows up at Micah's door claiming to be his son. These surprises, and the ways they throw Micah's meticulously organized life off-kilter, risk changing him forever"--

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"Micah Mortimer is a creature of habit. A self-employed tech expert, superintendent of his Baltimore apartment building, cautious to a fault behind the steering wheel, he seems content leading a steady, circumscribed life. But one day his routines are blown apart when his woman friend (he refuses to call anyone in her late thirties a 'girlfriend') tells him she's facing eviction, and a teenager shows up at Micah's door claiming to be his son. These surprises, and the ways they throw Micah's meticulously organized life off-kilter, risk changing him forever"--
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Autorenporträt
Anne Tyler, nacida en Minneapolis en 1941, es autora de numerosas novelas, entre la que destacan Buscando a Caleb (1975), El tránsito de Morgan (1980), Reunión en el restaurante Nostalgia (PEN/Faulkner Award 1983, publicada por Lumen en 2012), Ejercicios respiratorios (Premio Pulitzer 1989), El turista accidental (National Book Critics Circle Award 1986, que fue llevada a la gran pantalla), Cuando éramos mayores (2001), El matrimonio amateur (elegida por The New York Times como uno de los libros más destacados de 2004), Propios y extraños (2006), La brújula de Noé (2007), El hombre que dijo adiós (Lumen, 2013), El hilo azul (Lumen, 2016, elegida como mejor novela del mes por Amazon), Corazón de vinagre (Lumen, 2017) y El baile del reloj (Lumen, 2019). Es miembro de la American Academy of Art and Letters. Desde hace años vive con su familia en Baltimore, donde están ambientadas casi todas sus obras. Una sala llena de corazones rotos, su novela más reciente, será publicada próximamente en Lumen.