Rush on the sidelines. Tyler E.

The novel of a living classic of American literature is the story of the second chance and power of human connections.

Mike Mortimer is a man of habit. The younger brother of the five disorderly sisters, simple -minded, large children, he learned the only one at the university, but by more than forty years he did not marry, preferring loneliness and strict order. He runs in the morning, he methodically complies with the rules of the road, he repair the computers with an old lady and meets a minor girlfriend a couple of times a week. Life without ardent hopes, but without disappointment, calm and mentally comfortable. And only a strange vision of vision - each time Mike takes a fire hydrant for a red -haired boy on a run. This aberration even begins to disturb Mike-is it not with the eyes of something, or maybe with a soul? And once a teenager is declared on his threshold, claiming that he is his son. And the comfortable, ordered life of Mikey flies to Tartarara.

Roman Anne Tyler is a look that penetrates into the very heart, in which understanding, sympathy, and humor. A story full of joy that you can always see such a familiar and familiar world in a new way.