Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant

Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant | Characters

The Tull family of Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant has five members. Although he leaves abruptly, early in the novel, Beck Tull, the father, is a presence against which the other characters react. Pearl is cold, stiff, and unbending on the surface. But her memories of her early relationship with Beck, reveal another side of her, one that could light up at being courted and warm to her children. Cody is the restless traveling man his father was, but he takes his family everywhere because he knows what it feels like to be left behind. Ezra tries to establish the togetherness the rest...

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