{"product_id":"dinner-at-the-homesick-restaurant-paperback","title":"Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003eBESTSELLER\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cb\u003eFrom the beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning author, a\u003c\/b\u003e \"funny, heart-hammering, wise\" (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times)\u003c\/i\u003e portrait of a family that will remind you why \"to read a novel by Anne Tyler is to fall in love\" (PEOPLE).\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHardened 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNow 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"[In \u003ci\u003eDinner at the Homesick Restaurant\u003c\/i\u003e Tyler] has arrived at a new level of power.\" --John Updike, \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Marvelous, astringent, hilarious, [and] strewn with the banana peels of love.\" --\u003ci\u003eCosmopolitan\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eA book that should join those few that every literate person will have to read.\u003cbr\u003eTHE BOSTON GLOBE\u003cbr\u003ePearl Tull is nearing the end of her life but not her memory. Ever since 1944 when her husband left her, she has raised her three very different children on her own. Now grown, they have gathered together--with anger, with hope, and with a beautiful, harsh, and dazzling story to tell.... \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"From the Paperback edition.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67889645224159,"sku":"9780449911594","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/YlKidTLomB9780449911594.webp?v=1790913048","url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/products\/dinner-at-the-homesick-restaurant-paperback","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}