Down to the Middle

Tuesday Stephens was born and raised in Portland, Oregon, so she’s already well used to eccentric people and bizarre happenstance when she takes a pay-the-rent job at a home meals delivery company. But no amount of immersion in the culture of strange that her city embraces could have prepared her for the discovery that the eerily clean and silent house at the end of her daily route is the home of her favorite author from childhood, Sebastian Lanney, who has been confined to his home for nearly two decades by severe agoraphobia. She soon finds her life as a Millennial drifter caught up in the strong current of his captivating personality and the dark comedy of errors that accompanies living with a chronic mental illness. As their unusual friendship begins to evolve into something more, she’s compelled to examine her own insecurities about love and the unplannable nature of life in the zero-privacy world of the twenty-first century, where every decision is crowdsourced and every trauma dissected by millions of strangers.