Anne Tyler - Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant

Pros: characters, style, text

Cons: nothing that I can see

Review: Dinner At The Homesick Restaurant is an absolutely breathtaking chronicle of one family's struggle to stay together under the most difficult circumstances of emotional separation.

What Anne Tyler has done here is developed a complex narrative...

Pros: A truly fine study of a family torn, but struggling to stay a family

Cons: Cannot think of a one

Review: It is interesting that many of Anne Tyler's books contain a similar type of character: mild and placid, confused at the ways of the world and generally willing to accept what harsh reality often doles out to such a person. Ezra Tull is such a person, and...

Pros: Great Story, Neat Characters, Good Setting

Cons: Some Violent Parts Are Disturbing

Review: When I first picked up this book (it was recommended to me by my mom) I thought it was just some story about a husband who leaves his wife and children and they are left to fend for themselves. Maybe part of that is true, but this book is so much...