"Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant" by Anne Tyler shows the struggle to create a sense of homesickness which is a struggle to create the feeling of "home"; Anne Tyler redefines the concept of home to a place where you feel safe no longer is it a nuclear family situation. Family is an important concept in Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant family is two or more people who share values and goals. Family is like air …showed first 75 words of 1567 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1567 total…New Leader, Vol XXI, No. 20, November 28,1988, pp.19-21. Reprinted in novel for students, Vol. 10. Paula Gallant Eckard , "Family and Community in Anne Tyler's Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant, "In The southern Literary Journal, Vol. XXII, No. 2 Spring, 1990, pp. 33-44, Reproduced by permission. Robert Tower, " Roughing it" in NewYork Review of Books, Vol.XXXV, No.17, November 10 1998, pp 40-41. Reprint in Novel For Students, vol. 10 Tyler, Anne. 2004. Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant. 16 Mar. 2006 < >.