Julie Myerson is an English author and critic. At the
Guardian she tagged six favorite family gatherings from literature, including:
Few do it better than Anne Tyler, especially in her masterpiece, Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant. Tyler finds great intensity and 
urgency in parent-sibling relationships, so when Beck Tull suddenly abandons wife Pearl and three small children, the loss reverberates down the years in inevitable, unpredictable and unending ways. The novel’s heartbreaking climax, which has the remaining family members gathering for a meal at the eponymous restaurant, has to be one of the most tenderly written family dinners in literature.
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another entry on the list.
Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant is among
four books that changed Stephen Giles and
Peggy Frew’s top ten books about "bad" mothers.
--Marshal Zeringue
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