Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant

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It would be easy to chalk this up to being at a junction in my life where I feel I've failed more than I've succeeded, where family has passed away and holidays seem emptier than full.

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After supper, Pearl sometimes plays board games with them; Cody is a cheater, but the only one confident enough to sing and dance with mom. E questo per me qualcosa vuol dire: ci vedo riflesso bene il mio entusiasmo iniziale che col tempo si è andato stemperando, smorzando davanti a una certa reiterazione di temi e situazioni, fino a portarmi al completo allontanamento, che ormai dura da una quindicina d’anni. 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. And down that road there's a risk of starting to treat life as a mystery instead of the way smart people treat it - as a set of done and undone errands.I kept thinking of Kurt Vonnegut as I was reading, and how he said he never wrote heroes and villains in his books. Now that I've read it again, with a much greater appreciation for her range and craft, I can say that yes, this is indeed her masterpiece. However as we progress through all the very unlikable members of her family I lost sympathy and then interest.

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However, it wasn't until the very last pages until I realized what it is exactly that I love so much about her stories: They speak the truth! And yet here I am trying to decipher– as the most persistent secret agent would try to decipher–what it means when a woman doesn’t take her hat off to cook dinner for her children.I really, honestly believe I missed some rule that everyone else takes for granted; I must have been absent from school that day. She doesn't leave out anything - she tells you the truth as it is, and that combined with her wonderful prose makes for beautiful stories. Jenny helps to raise her stepchildren and finds that one—Slevin, the eldest—has trouble dealing with his parents’ divorce.