![]() ![]() “There I was, on the verge of losing my apartment,” she says. It’s something of a shock when the son of his college girlfriend turns up wondering if Micah might be his father (not possible, it’s quickly established), and it’s really a shock when his casual agreement to let 18-year-old Brink crash in his apartment for a night leads Micah’s “woman friend,” Cass, to break up with him. ![]() Micah thinks of himself as a good guy with a good life. Dave’s comments are uttered at a hilarious, chaotic family get-together that demonstrates the origins of Micah’s persnickety behavior and offers a welcome note of comedy in what is otherwise quite a sad tale. ![]() He’s the kind of person, brother-in-law Dave mockingly notes, who has an assigned chore for each day: “vacuuming day…dusting day….Your kitchen has a day all its own” (Thursday). Each morning he goes for a run at 7:15 starts his work as a freelance tech consultant around 10 and in the afternoons deals with tasks in the apartment building where he is the live-in super. ![]() Micah’s existence is entirely organized to his liking. A man straitjacketed in routine blinks when his emotional blinders are removed in Tyler’s characteristically tender and rueful latest ( Clock Dance, 2018, etc.). ![]()
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