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DINNER AT THE HOMESICK RESTAURANT by Anne Tyler Knopf: 303 pages...
...describes their trajectories with an unpretentious sense of fate. No explanations are necessary when Beck Tull, a retired traveling salesman, attends the funeral of the wife he left 35 years before and acts as if he has been on a long business trip. This occurs at the end of Homesick Restaurant, and the reader is not surprised. The scene has had careful preparation, and Tull has been well defined by his absence. He is the black hole around which his wife Pearl and children Cody. Jenny and Ezra have had to exist. The novel opens with Pearl Tull, 85, dying...
...whole steer turning slowly on a spit. You'd slice what you liked onto your plate and sit around in armchairs eating and talking with the guests at large. Then again, maybe he would start serving only street food. Of course! He'd cook what people felt homesick...
...last, it's over. The December road trip to end all road trips--eight consecutive away games--has ended. The icemen must have been feeling homesick toward the end, as they wasted a three-goal lead and tied Princeton, 5-5, on December 19 and ten days later dropped a pair of close games to Western Michigan...
...Herman served as Governor for seven years and four terms as U.S. Senator); in McRae, Ga. Six days after the Talmadges arrived at the Governor's mansion in 1933, "Miss Mit," refusing to shuck her rural demeanor, returned to the family's McRae plantation because she was homesick for the cows and chickens. She raised eyebrows again in 1936 when she spurned Eleanor Roosevelt's invitation to the White House because, she said, "I have to get my farm started...