Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant

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Breathing Lessons opens with a couple who has two kids and at least judging from its opening, has a different taste compared to the first two books. I could just reach out and lay a fingertip on his arm while he was talking and he would instantly fall silent and get all confused. I came to this novel with memories of a mother whose dreams for her children were not her children's dreams; a father who kept trying and traveling and failing until he died, leaving one sometimes out-of-control parent to do the job of two; three children whose mother's eyes saw one paper, one rock, and one gold crown; a child who was lied to about the departure of his father; a sweet adult son who worked and still devoted himself to serving his sick mother; a family that could not get through a special occasion without someone's selfishness creating a "crisis" and an abrupt end to the celebration. You surface from this marvelous novel as if from the bends, lungs nearly bursting, tears rattling on the page. La storia è ambientata come di consueto sulla costa est degli Stati Uniti (la città preferita da Tyler è la Baltimora dove abita), e come di consueto c’è una famiglia: la madre Pearl, abbandonata dal marito, i tre figli, il maggiore Cody, l’uomo di successo, il secondo Ezra, così dolce e impacciato da spezzarti il cuore, e Pearl si era sentita più in pericolo che mai, proprietario di un ristorante dove la famiglia si riunisce una volta all’anno per una cena, e la terza nata, finalmente la femmina, Jenny.

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However, they never seem to be able to get through a single dinner without conflict, this time with Cody facing down his father, causing Beck to leave in the middle of the dinner. She was not a tranquil woman; she often lost her temper, snapped, slapped the nearest cheek, said things she later regretted--but thank the Lord, she didn't expose her tears. What strikes me as profound upon second reading (when of course I'm much older) is how wise Tyler is about time and memory. Underneath their life stories is the pain that they have to live through because their father just, without telling them so, stepped out of their lives at the time they needed him to be there.I was coming off a book that was very dark and I needed to read something that offered lighter fare.

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Ezra Tull—one of Tyler's gentle, bumbling men—is, unlike his meddlesome, reproachful mother Pearl, a "feeder. Having completed my second read of “Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant” about a decade after the first I am thrilled to find that this text holds up. It is Jenny Tull, of course; the wisdom of the moment resides in the perception of our impatience with the sight of our own discontinuity. Every memory is a bliss, every scar is made to treasure, every life must come to an end, and there will be a feast for those who remain to cherish your existence.Cody has always resented Ezra; all of Cody’s girlfriends have seemed inordinately interested in his brother. at the picture showing ''a dark little girl with a thin watchful face,'' an image of the mirthless youth she shared with her brothers - and then says dismissively: ''Oh, fine, it's not me, then.