Macon Leary is a travel writer who hates both travel and anything out of the ordinary. He is grounded by loneliness and an unwillingness to compromise his creature comforts. Then he meets Muriel, a deliciously peculiar dog-obedience trainer who upends Macon's insular world--and thrusts him headlong into a remarkable engagement with life. "Bittersweet... Evocative... It's easy to forget this is the warm lull of fiction; you half-expect to run into her characters at the dry cleaners.... Tyler [is] a writer of great ...
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Macon Leary is a travel writer who hates both travel and anything out of the ordinary. He is grounded by loneliness and an unwillingness to compromise his creature comforts. Then he meets Muriel, a deliciously peculiar dog-obedience trainer who upends Macon's insular world--and thrusts him headlong into a remarkable engagement with life. "Bittersweet... Evocative... It's easy to forget this is the warm lull of fiction; you half-expect to run into her characters at the dry cleaners.... Tyler [is] a writer of great compassion." -- The Boston Globe "Tyler has given us an endlessly diverting book whose strength gathers gradually to become a genuinely thrilling one." -- Los Angeles Times "A delight... A graceful comic novel about getting through life." -- The Wall Street Journal "A rarely equaled richness and depth...delicious humor... Without Anne Tyler, American fiction would be an immeasurably bleaker place." -- Newsday
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This book will have you laughing out loud. It has such an odd main character, but somehow Anne Tyler has made him believable. I think many will be happy with the ending, also. Great book!
