Anne Tyler is an American novelist, a recognized master of family chronicles.
The novel “Dinner at the Restaurant ‘Home Sorrow’” was written in 1982. It became a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, the Faulkner Prize, and won the American Book Award for fiction.
In Anne Tyler’s novel, she tells the story of the American Tull family losing its inner bonds and eventually falling apart. At the same time, the writer seeks positive values capable of restoring meaning to human life.
Every image is vividly drawn: the mother of the family, from whose point of view much of the narrative unfolds, the brothers and sisters, and their children.