Contemporary Fiction
Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant
Anne Tyler4.4
397 reviewsA mother, three grown children, and a family meal that has never once been finished together.
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Anne Tyler
Contemporary Fiction · United States · English
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Find this author in our Goodreads groupAuthor introduction
Anne Tyler writes the ordinary family with unnerving accuracy. Nothing explodes, everything accumulates, and by the last page a whole life has quietly changed shape.
Our members recommend her constantly to readers who say they want something gentle and then find themselves entirely undone.
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Meet the author
What defines her fiction for this community?
The refusal to make anyone a villain. Every character is doing their best with the family they were handed.
Where should a new reader start?
At the dinner table that never quite finishes, which is where this novel begins and ends.
Reader response
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Mei L.
February 2026
“Funny until it was not”
I laughed on the train and then had to put the book down in public. Wanjiru and her mother are the truest pair of people I have met in fiction this year.
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Mei L. · February 2026
