Word: homesickness
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Those who do plan to move admit to mixed feelings. "I am the type of person that establishes roots," says Hance, who has a daughter at home and two married children living within a few blocks. "When we go on a two-week vacation, I get homesick." And those who have left cannot easily forget what they went through. "I worry still about illness that may come up later from the dioxin and whether my kids will be able to have kids," says Keith Young, 29, who already has started life anew 25 miles south in Ware...
...making the message familiar. In nine books in twelve years, Anne Tyler, 41, has populated an imaginary Maryland town with characters as memorable as those of Faulkner country. The hero of Morgan's Passing is a loud, daffy, unfathomable presence, as unexplainable as an Ahab. Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant, her most recent novel, uses an eatery as a metaphor for family life, in which food is the stuff of history, and patrons are constantly eating and running away. The wife of an Iranian child psychiatrist who is also a novelist, Tyler still bristles at being described...
...Dean's December by Saul Bellow. In a tale of two cities, Bucharest and Chicago, another Nobelist meditates on the dual natures of freedom and totalitarianism. Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant by Anne Tyler. The family that dines together declines together in this bittersweet novel of a brave and eccentric Baltimore household...
...heard so many upperclassmen say that they felt so lost when they were freshmen, and had the feeling that they were the only ones who weren't in step with everyone else," says Gould. "So many people feel that they're the only one who's homesick and friendless. But Freshman Week is hard no matter...
...Homesick Restaurant, Anne Tyler...