A room full of broken hearts

A contemporary love story, by the winner of the Pulitzer, National Book Critics Circle, and PEN/Faulkner Awards

ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF 2021 ACCORDING TO EL CULTURAL, EL CONFIDENCIAL AND GQ

"So happy to read Anne Tyler again, who always knew and knows and will know what to do. Now you should know that not reading her is like not knowing anything. So it's up to you to start the year by beginning to feel happy."
Rodrigo Fresán, ABC Cultural

"A new gem from Anne Tyler. [...] There is no other writer capable of creating such interesting and multifaceted men. [...] Her best novel in a long time."
The Guardian

It's impossible not to wonder what goes through the mind of a man like Micah Mortimer. He lives alone, is reserved, his routine is set in stone. Every morning at a quarter past seven, he goes for a run. Around ten or ten-thirty, he sticks the TECNOERMITAÑO magnetic sign on the roof of his Kia.

But this placid life is turned upside down when Cassia, his partner #Micah refuses to call anyone in their late thirties "girlfriend"#, announces that she's being evicted from her home and a teenager shows up at his door claiming to be his son. Anne Tyler's new novel offers an intimate look into the heart and mind of a man forced to see the world with new eyes.

Critics have said...
"The most delicate of experimenters, starting from the truly unpredictable and transgressive texture of the everyday. [...] So happy to read Anne Tyler again, who always knew and knows and will know what to do. Now you should know that not reading her is like not knowing anything. So it's up to you to start the year by beginning to feel happy."
Rodrigo Fresán, ABCultural

"An author who has achieved excellence and who, [...] in her long career, has dedicated herself to examining feelings and their implications -and complications- through characters like Micah Mortimer."
Xesús Fraga, La Voz de Galicia

"How fantastic are Anne Tyler's outsiders. [...] An appropriate and profound story [from the hand of a] natural observer of infinite tenderness."
Anna Carreras, Ara

"Once again Anne Tyler tells us that the value and reality of our existence lies in small things [...] with another of her wonderful stories available to us. An old friend."
Público

"Tyler maintains the pulse of her genius [and] once again demonstrates that she is one of the true treasures of current literature and that her virtues as an emotional portraitist of her eccentric characters provide an ironic and benevolent vision."
Francisco Millet Alcoba, La Opinión de Málaga

"Tyler exhibits mastery."
Mey Zamora, La Vanguardia

"A contemporary Jane Austen in Baltimore. [...] There are authors who never fail. Going back to them is like going home or meeting an old friend again. Anne Tyler is one of them."
Público

"In this novel by Anne Tyler, there are no complications of plot, structure, or writing. Everything is as normal as the life that appears in it. Simple characters who deal with the inner world common to all. Feelings that trigger loneliness, relationships with others, with the past, with the unexpected, but all of this with a finesse in a simple prose."
Pedro Antonio López Gayarre, El Español