Name: Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant, The Accidental Tourist, and Breathing Lessons
ISBN: 9780099916406

Anne Tyler

Three Novels

Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant, The Accidental Tourist, and Breathing Lessons

Eighty-five-year-old Pearl Tull recalls the desertion of her husband and her attempts to raise three children, who must come to terms with themselves and their father after their mother's death.

Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant

Nathan Griffin

Pretty sure this was a recommendation at the end of "How to Read Literature Like A Professor", and it's pretty obvious why. Lots of really great allegory throughout. Most of which I probably missed. 

I guess I could see how people would think this is boring. Not much actually happens. But really great complex characters and relationships.

Michael Hessling

Detested Pearl and Cody, although they both redeemed themselves at the end.

michelle cardone

A “funny, heart-hammering, wise” (The New York Times) best-selling portrait of a family that will remind you why "to read a novel by Anne Tyler is to fall in love" (PEOPLE). Abandoned by her wanderlusting husband, stoic Pearl raised her three children on her own. Now grown, the siblings are inextricably linked by their memories—some painful—which hold them together despite their differences. Hardened by life’s disappointments, wealthy, charismatic Cody has turned cruel and envious. Thrice-married Jenny is errant and passionate. And Ezra, the flawed saint of the family, who stayed at home to look after his mother, runs a restaurant where he cooks what other people are homesick for, stubbornly yearning for the perfect family he never had. Now gathered during a time of loss, they will reluctantly unlock the shared secrets of their past and discover if what binds them together is stronger than what tears them apart. “[In Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant Tyler] has arrived at a new level of power.” —John Updike, The New Yorker “Marvelous, astringent, hilarious, [and] strewn with the banana peels of love.” —Cosmopolitan

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Lea Marshall 

Pearl Tull is the matriarchal head of the Tull family since being abandoned by her husband Beck 35 years ago. She was left to bring up their three children.

Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant, The Accidental Tourist, and Breathing Lessons Three Novels

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