Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant - Softcover

"Her best novel" (Guardian)

"Anne Tyler is a brilliant writer" (Observer)

"A book to be settled into fully, tomorrow be damned. Funny, heart-hammering, wise...superb" (New York Times Book Review)

"The most impressive American novelist of her generation" (Sunday Telegraph)

"[It is] Beautiful, funny, real, absorbing – Anne Tyler is the writer who made me want to write." (Nick Hornby UK Press Syndication)

WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY THE AUTHOR

‘Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant is a book to be settled into fully, tomorrow be damned. Funny, heart-hammering, wise’ New York Times

When Pearl Tull’s husband, Beck, abandons her she pours her energies into preserving normality. Only gradually do her three children realise their father is gone for good. Now, as Pearl lies on her deathbed, the impact of Beck’s abrupt departure unspools: on Cody who can’t overcome his anger, on mild Ezra who must always keep the peace, and on bright, errant Jenny. And so the secrets, memories and anguish of the Tull family begin to surface.

‘Tyler is not merely good, but wickedly good’ John Updike

See also: They Came Like Swallows