"Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant" by Anne Tyler

"Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant" by Anne Tyler shows the struggle to create a sense of homesickness which is a struggle to create the feeling of "home"; Anne Tyler redefines the concept of home to a place where you feel safe no longer is it a nuclear family situation. Family is an important concept in Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant family is two or more people who share values and goals. Family is like air …

…New Leader, Vol XXI, No. 20, November 28,1988, pp.19-21. Reprinted in novel for students, Vol. 10. Paula Gallant Eckard , "Family and Community in Anne Tyler's Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant, "In The southern Literary Journal, Vol. XXII, No. 2 Spring, 1990, pp. 33-44, Reproduced by permission. Robert Tower, " Roughing it" in NewYork Review of Books, Vol.XXXV, No.17, November 10 1998, pp 40-41. Reprint in Novel For Students, vol. 10 Tyler, Anne. 2004. Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant. 16 Mar. 2006 < >.