Micah knows this isn’t true because the timeline doesn’t add up, and he never had sex with Lorna (though he does not tell Brink the latter). After chatting for a bit, Brink indicates that he believes Micah is his father. Brink is mysterious about his intentions and tells Micah that he’s taking the day off from college. Micah invites the kid, Brink, inside for coffee. Micah greets the boy, who stops Micah and introduces himself as the son of Micah’s ex-girlfriend from college, Lorna. When Micah gets back, a well-dressed 18-year-old boy is waiting on his stoop.
Micah makes this same mistake every morning. Without his glasses, he mistakes a fire hydrant for a redhead child.
He ponders this dream while on his morning run the next day. Micah dreams one night of finding a baby in a supermarket aisle. During dinner, Micah notices Cass is less affectionate than usual, and she declines his offer to stay over. Micah likes that they live separately despite being together for three years. Micah eases her fears, then picks up dinner later so that they can eat at her place. One day, his girlfriend Cass calls and informs him that she’s worried she’ll lose her apartment because her landlord discovered her cat. He follows a careful personal routine every morning, maintains a cleaning routine for his apartment on weekly rotation, and drives with extreme caution and attention to detail. Micah Mortimer works as a self-employed IT technician and as a maintenance man for his apartment complex.
This study guide follows the First Vintage Books Edition paperback from March 2021. In addition to other notable achievements, Tyler’s Breathing Lessons won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1989. The Accidental Tourist won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction (1985) and later became an award-winning film starring Geena Davis (Davis won an Academy Award for her role), Kathleen Turner, and William Hurt. Notable works from Tyler, who is also a short story writer and literary critic, include The Accidental Tourist (1985), A Spool of Blue Thread (2015), and Breathing Lessons (1988).
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