Brink has run away from college, and he seeks out Micah because he believes Micah to be his biological father. However, over the course of the week described in the novel, the tidiness of his life is disrupted by the arrival at his doorstep of Brink Adams, a college freshman whose mother was once Micah's girlfriend. His life is described as never varying from his usual activities, which include running, housekeeping, responding to tech support calls, addressing building tenants' needs, and spending evenings with his girlfriend, Cass, who lives separately from him. The novel begins with a portrait of Micah's life and daily routine. The novel is set in the city of Baltimore. Scenes from the characters’ pasts are narrated whenever relevant to the present action. Following the time frame of the week, the events of the plot are told in linear chronological order. The novel is told from the point of view of a third-person semi-omniscient narrator who does not figure as character in the action of the novel. The chapter structure follows this timeline, where chapter one falls on a Monday, and the last chapter falls on the following Monday. Each chapter describes a day during a single week in his life. The action of the novel describes a week in the life of a 43-year-old-man, Micah Mortimer, who runs his own tech support company and also manages a tenement building. Tyler's novel is divided into eight chapters. The following version of this book was used to create the guide: Tyler, Anne.

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