Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant: A Novel (Ballantine Reader's Circle) - Softcover

"Beautiful . . . funny, heart-hammering, wise . . . superb entertainment."--The New York Times

"A book that should join those few that every literate person will have to read."--The Boston Globe

"A novelist who knows what a proper story is . . . [Tyler is] not only a good and artful writer, but a wise one as well."--Newsweek

"Anne Tyler is surely one of the most satisfying novelists working in America today."--Chicago Tribune

"In her ninth novel she 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

Eighty-five-year-old Pearl Tull recalls the desertion of her husband and her attempts to raise their three children, who must come to terms with their own lives and with their feelings toward their father after their mother's death. Reader's Guide included. Reissue. 20,000 first printing.