Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant (Tyler)

Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant 
Anne Tyler, 1982
Random House
336 pp.
ISBN-13: 9780449911594


Summary
Pearl Tull is nearing the end of her life but not her memory.

It was a Sunday night in 1944 when her husband left the little row house on Baltimore's Calvert Street, abandoning Pearl to raise their three children alone: Jenny, high-spirited and determined, nurturing to strangers but distant to those she loves; the oldest son, Cody, a wild and incorrigible youth possessed by the lure of power and money; and sweet and clumsy Ezra, Pearl's favorite, who never stops yearning for the "perfect" family that could never be his own."

Now grown, they have gathered together again—with anger, with hope, and with a beautiful, harsh, and dazzling story to tell. (From the publisher.)