Redhead by the Side of the Road
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 […]
Vinegar Girl
“An effective retelling, while nodding to the original text, stands on its own as a story in the way Iris Murdoch’s 'The Black Prince' responds to 'Hamlet' and Aldous Huxley’s 'Brave New World' plays with 'The Tempest.' Tyler succeeds in creating a world we believe in…Charming…Clever"–Boston Globe
A Spool of Blue Thread
Library Journal Review Starred Review. Three generations of Whitshanks have lived in the family home in Baltimore since the 1920s, in which they have loved, squabbled, protected secrets, had children, and, in some cases, led inauthentic lives. Using her signature gifts for brilliant dialog and for intricately framing the complex messiness of parental and spousal […]
The Beginner's Goodbye : a Novel
Library Journal Although crippled in his right arm and leg, Aaron has spent much of his life fending off his family's attempts to protect him from the world. A successful editor of a vanity press in Baltimore that publishes a series of beginner's guides to various subjects, Aaron one day finds himself falling in love […]
Noah's Compass : a Novel
The Washington Post – Ron Charles: ?a small story that provides an interesting variation on those dismal tales of aging by [Philip] Roth & Co?"Just trying to stay afloat"?neither sinking into Roth's existential despair nor ascending into Oprah's blinding self-delight?that's the difficult, totally unhip theme that Tyler takes clear to the end of this understated […]