num_pages: 303
description: Eighty-five-year-old Perla Tull recalls the desertion of her husband and her solo attempts to raise three children--Cody, Ezra, and Jenny--who must come to terms with themselves and their father after their mother's death. (General Fiction)
language: English
title: Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant
titlecomplete: Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant
genres: Fiction, Family, American, Literature, Adult, Classics, Novels, Contemporary, Adult Fiction, Literary Fiction
ratings_count: 30223
places: Baltimore, Maryland
awards: awardedAt: 410256000000
name: Pulitzer Prize
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 410256000000
name: PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, awardedAt: 378720000000
name: Los Angeles Times Book Prize
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 378720000000
name: National Book Critics Circle Award
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 410256000000
name: National Book Award Finalist
category: Fiction (Hardcover)
publisher: Alfred A. Knopf