Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant Anne Tyler

Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant follows the lives of each member of the Tull family, the mother and her three kids. The story begins and ends with the mother’s death, while the middle of the novel recounts the lives of each of the family...

Anne Tyler’s Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant is filled with many complex characters that make up the Tull family. However, throughout the interconnected lives of siblings Ezra, Cody, and Jenny, the one key figure they lack is their father, Beck....

Although she had a “fairly isolated childhood” (Salwak, 3), Anne Tyler’s insights about family are remarkably accurate. In two of Tyler’s books, The Accidental Tourist and Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant, she tells the tales of two very...