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Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant

By: Anne Tyler
Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
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Through every family run memories which bind it together - despite everything. The Tulls of Baltimore are no exception. Abandoned by her salesman husband, Pearl is left to bring up her three children alone - Cody, a flawed devil, Ezra, a flawed saint, and Jenny, errant and passionate. Now as Pearl lies dying, stiffly encased in her pride and solitude, the past is unlocked and with it, secrets.

A classic novel from one of America's greatest living novelists, now available as an audiobook.

 Family Life Fiction Genre Fiction Literary Fiction World Literature

Critic Reviews

Her best novel
Anne Tyler is a brilliant writer
A book to be settled into fully, tomorrow be damned. Funny, heart-hammering, wise…superb
The most impressive American novelist of her generation
A classic of contemporary Americana…variously funny and horrifying and finally, quietly, terribly moving
[It is] Beautiful, funny, real, absorbing – Anne Tyler is the writer who made me want to write. (Nick Hornby)
The best of Tyler's many excellent books
I do think the world would probably be a better place if everyone read Anne Tyler's Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant, but to be honest, anything by Tyler will do. She's such a brilliantly empathetic writer - there's no 'them' and 'us' in Tyler's world - and she often writes from the perspective of the kind of people who you would walk past and barely notice in the street . . . Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant is a proper family saga filled with beady but compassionate takes on all of the unforgettable characters. Reading Tyler helps people to become better people, and I really fully believe that (Hadley Freeman)
Excellently done; the minutiae of domestic landscapes, the lunatic irrationality of family quarrels, the torments of sibling rivalry
Funny, heart-hammering, wise...superb entertainment
All stars
Most relevant
At first this seemed miserable and depressing, so I left it for a while. When I started it again, I couldn't stop. People, families, life are painted with such care and perception. Different characters come into focus throughout the novel, which keeps the interest and develops and rounds out our understanding.

Hard to get into but grew rich and deep

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If you want to listen to a book that sounds like all the most judgemental things your mother has ever said to you, this would be the perfect. A great gift for someone you hate.

Unpleasant and uninteresting

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