Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant

Hardcover, 303 pages

English language

Published March 15, 1982 by Knopf, Distributed by Random House.

ISBN:: 978-0-394-52381-1
OCLC Number:: 7732718

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Pearl Tull is nearing the end of her life but not her memory. Ever since 1944 when her husband left her, she has raised her three very different children on her own. Now grown, they have gathered together -- with anger, with hope, and with a beautiful, harsh, and dazzling story to tell...

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GrandmaY reviewed Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant by Anne Tyler (Ballantine reader's circle)

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3 stars

I was about to give up on this book at about the half way mark as it was just trudging along, but I suddenly started to connect with the characters and liked the second half well enough. All over, it is probably my least favorite of Anne Tyler's works.

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Runaway husbands -- Fiction
Mothers -- Death -- Fiction
Baltimore (Md.) -- Fiction

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