Redhead by the Side of the Road
Micah Mortimer will remind you of Tony Shaloub's Monk character. He's hyper organized with a day each week set aside to vacuum the rugs, do the laundry etc. He doesn't exactly have OCD, but he's close. He has his own business as an IT specialist. There's a scene where a woman calls him about her grandmother's computers; she can't find the passwords. Micah assures her he can't help her with that, but he goes anyway. Sure enough, he finds them, and she's really grateful.
His four sisters are just the opposite of Micah, messy as all get out with no systems at all. They say Micah takes after their grandfather, a house painter, who had all of his paint cans labeled.
Micah doesn't have a lot of luck with women, but he seems to have found his ideal mate, Cass, a fourth grade teacher, who's close to his age, 40, with a good heart. There's an episode where two boys tell her they don't want to go to the senior citizen's home because they smell bad and try to kiss them. She gives the fourth grade a touching lecture about how these people have lost all the people they loved, including most of their friends. Then she asks who still wants to stay in school on that day. Nobody raises his/her hand. She's a keeper.
Cass is worried about losing her apartment as she's sub-leasing it from this woman who looks like she might get married. Micah is not sympathetic. He even cracks a joke about the possibility of her living in her car. She is not amused.
Then a boy named Brink shows up, claiming Micah is his father. Micah assures him that's impossible as he and his mother never had sex, one of the reasons they split up. Brink has just started college and already he's taking a break. Micah insists he call his mother, and the boy splits.
This is a very short book. The ending snuck up on me. I turned a page, and it was over. The main thread is about Brink's traumatic situation, but the reader wants to know if Micah will ever find the right woman and how he could mistake a fire hydrant for a redhead at the side of the road.
His four sisters are just the opposite of Micah, messy as all get out with no systems at all. They say Micah takes after their grandfather, a house painter, who had all of his paint cans labeled.
Micah doesn't have a lot of luck with women, but he seems to have found his ideal mate, Cass, a fourth grade teacher, who's close to his age, 40, with a good heart. There's an episode where two boys tell her they don't want to go to the senior citizen's home because they smell bad and try to kiss them. She gives the fourth grade a touching lecture about how these people have lost all the people they loved, including most of their friends. Then she asks who still wants to stay in school on that day. Nobody raises his/her hand. She's a keeper.
Cass is worried about losing her apartment as she's sub-leasing it from this woman who looks like she might get married. Micah is not sympathetic. He even cracks a joke about the possibility of her living in her car. She is not amused.
Then a boy named Brink shows up, claiming Micah is his father. Micah assures him that's impossible as he and his mother never had sex, one of the reasons they split up. Brink has just started college and already he's taking a break. Micah insists he call his mother, and the boy splits.
This is a very short book. The ending snuck up on me. I turned a page, and it was over. The main thread is about Brink's traumatic situation, but the reader wants to know if Micah will ever find the right woman and how he could mistake a fire hydrant for a redhead at the side of the road.
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