![]() ![]() The central character is Macon Leary who has suffered a catastrophic loss: his 12-year-old son has been killed in a random shooting. Anne Tyler’s characters inhabit her native Baltimore but in a parallel universe – they are people on the margins, often eccentric, people who are just trying to get by, seemingly untouched by external social and political events. ![]() It is also, even after multiple readings, extremely funny.Įssentially this is a love story but one which offers a surprising view of what love may be. It had taken me that long to hold the sum of this extraordinary novel in my head – to realize that this was a great and subtle piece of writing where every character, every phrase was a carefully chosen part of a magnificent and subtle whole. It was only a recent seventh rereading that finally revealed why. The Accidental Tourist by Anne Tyler falls into the latter category. There are books I admire but don’t read again and books I reread compulsively. ![]()
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