Saint Maybe (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Anne Tyler
- First Published: 1991
- Type of Work: Novel
- Time of Work: 1965-1990
- Setting: Baltimore
- Principal Characters: Ian Bedloe, Bee Bedloe, Doug Bedloe, Danny Bedloe, Lucy Dean Bedloe, Agatha, Thomas, Daphne
- Genres: Long fiction, Domestic realism
- Subjects: 1960’s, 1970’s, Child rearing or parenting, Suicide, Gender roles, Guilt, 1980’s, Brothers, Single parents or single-parent families, Duty, Death or dying, Baltimore, Sacrifice
- Locales: Baltimore, MD
In Anne Tyler’s Baltimore, the Homesick Restaurant stays open on holidays so that people without families or the emotional wherewithal to get a meal on the table will have someplace to go. Here, a few months after Grandma Bee Bedloe’s death, the Bedloe family gathers for an unexpectedly pleasant Christmas dinner hosted by Ezra, the restaurant’s owner. Long before this dinner at the Homesick Restaurant, however, the reader of St. Maybe, Tyler’s twelfth novel, has been traveling in familiar familial territory. The Bedloes begin the novel as an “ideal, apple-pie...
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