Word: homesick
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...Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant, Anne Tyler...
...Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant, Tyler...
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FICTION: The Annotated Snark, Martin Gardner /The Collected Stories, Isaac Bashevis Singer /The Country Between Us, Carolyn Forché /The Dean's December, Saul Bellow /Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant, Anne Tyler /The Mosquito Coast, Paul Theroux
Ezra's homesick restaurant is not very profitable. It does manage to survive on its owner's terms, which, if one reads Tyler correctly, are worth more than the print-outs of an efficiency expert. Cody, in fact, hates Ezra for his wise foolishness and steals his fiancée. She is a scrawny country girl who unhappily ends up in expensive boxy suits and fancy automobiles. But Ezra is not deterred. A would-be wife turned sister-in-law is still family, and a family should eat together...