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Violence
None
No violence
Language
Barely any
Mild language
Sexual Content
Barely any
Mild adult romantic content
Substance Use
None
No substance use
Emotional Intensity
Barely any
Themes of underachievement, kindness, and discovering that the ordinary life is the one worth having
What this book is about
Tyler's 1998 novel follows Barnaby Gaitlin, a thirty-year-old from a wealthy Baltimore family who works for a company called Rent-a-Back, performing odd jobs for the elderly — and waits for a guardian angel to arrive and fix his life. Tyler at her warmest. For adults.
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