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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 Macons insular worldand thrusts him headlong into a remarkable engagement with life.Bittersweet Evocative Its 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. Tyler has given us an endlessly diverting book whose strength gathers gradually to become a genuinely thrilling one. A delight A graceful comic novel about getting through life. A rarely equaled richness and depthdelicious humor Without Anne Tyler, American fiction would be an immeasurably bleaker place.