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Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant

by Anne Tyler · 1982

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Pearl Tull is nearing the end of her life but not of her memory. It was a Sunday night in 1944 when her husband left the little row house on Baltimore's Calvert Street, abandoning Pearl to raise their three children alone: Jenny, high-spirited and determined, nurturing to strangers but distant to those she loves; the older son, Cody, a wild and incorrigible youth possessed by the lure of power and money; and sweet, clumsy Ezra, Pearl's favorite, who never stops yearning for the perfect family that could never be his own.

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Now Pearl and her three grown children have gathered together again-with anger, hope, and a beautiful, harsh, and dazzling story to tell.

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literary fictionliterary fictionMore like thisLess of thiswomen’s fictionwomen’s fictionMore like thisLess of thishistorical fictionhistorical fictionMore like thisLess of this
Themes
familyfamilyMore like thisLess of thisrelationshipsrelationshipsMore like thisLess of thiswomenwomenMore like thisLess of thissiblingssiblingsMore like thisLess of thisfoodfoodMore like thisLess of this
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1980s1980sMore like thisLess of thisBaltimoreBaltimoreMore like thisLess of thisMarylandMarylandMore like thisLess of thisUSAUSAMore like thisLess of this
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adult
Length
medium · 303 pages

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