Noah’s Compass is the eighteenth novel by Anne Tyler, (my favorite is Digging to America.) This novel tells of a 60 year old man who has just lost his teaching job. He moves into a smaller apartment and his first night there he is hit over the head and robbed. He wakes up in the hospital and remembers absolutely nothing of the incident.

His search to regain his lost memory leads him to engage with a professional ‘rememberer,’ and the story takes off from there.

Tyler is a wonderful writer, yet I found it hard to care too deeply about the characters in this novel. It was all a bit depressing and forgettable.I still really enjoy reading Tyler’s novels, but this wasn’t my favorite.