Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Anne Tyler
- First Published: 1982
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Family
- Time of Work: 1924-1980
- Setting: Baltimore, Maryland
- Genres: Long fiction, Domestic realism, Family literature
- Subjects: 1950’s, 1960’s, 1970’s, Children, Family or family life, Memory, Mothers, Parents and children, Marriage, 1940’s, Restaurants, bars, taverns, or pubs, Guilt, Brothers and sisters, 1920’s, 1930’s, 1980’s, Fathers, Death or dying, Baltimore
- Locales: Baltimore, MD
Characters Discussed
Pearl Cody Tull, who is eighty-six years old, small, fair-haired, gray-eyed, and indomitable. Her insight into herself and her relationships with her long-absent husband and her three children sharpens and becomes focused as her eyesight fades to blindness. Never able to nurture close relationships, Pearl instead allowed her grim determination and high expectations to drive her husband away; as a single mother, her occasional murderous rages almost obscured her powerful love of and concern for her children. Despite an abiding sense of grievance, Pearl...
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