This is a short book that comes in at 178 pages and somehow I didn't feel it was long enough to properly get to know the characters. In The Accidental Tourist and A Spool of Blue Thread, Anne Tyler describes the tiny details that bring characters to life in such a convincing way that you can practically feel the heat coming off them as you read. Don't get me wrong, this is not a bad novel, and for a shorter story it's very good, but the trouble is that the author has set such a high bar for herself that I suddenly expect everything she writes to be a prize winner. Perhaps my problem is that I couldn't really get to grips with Micah, who is known locally as the 'Tech Hermit', and makes part of his living sorting out people's tech problems while the rest of his time is spent doing the maintenance for his block of flats. He's a bit nerdy, in that he keeps his flat tidy and does his chores on set days (doesn't everyone?), but he wasn't quite quirky...