Dinner At The Homesick Restaurant

　　家，是生命的起點，是難以割捨的牽絆。家庭就像一場聚餐，一道道的菜就是我們每天的生活，相應參與者的角色與個性，而有不同的體驗和感受。有人活得理直氣壯，有人委曲求全，也有人怡然自得。

　　本書從一個臨終母親回憶一生開始，透過各家庭成員的觀點，讓我們體驗不同角色對家庭、愛、男女關係、手足親情及生命意義的不同觀察。

　　Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant is a book to be settled into fully, tomorrow be damned. Funny, heart-hammering, wise.' The New York Times

作者簡介

　　作者安妮．泰勒擅長描寫平凡人的生活，雖然沒有轟轟烈烈的情愛，或高潮起伏的戲劇化情節，但在她樸素而細膩的文字中，蘊含真義與寫作才華，深刻描繪生命的熱和希望。這本是她最具功力的作品，讓你讀了就放不下的小說。

　　Anne Tyler was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 1941 and grew up in Raleigh, North Carolina. She is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Breathing Lessons and many other bestselling novels, including The Accidental Tourist, Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant, Saint Maybe, Ladder of Years, A Patchwork Planet, Back When We Were Grownups, The Amateur Marriage, Digging to America and The Beginner's Goodbye.

　　In 1994 she was nominated by Roddy Doyle and Nick Hornby as 'the greatest novelist writing in English' and in 2012 she received the Sunday Times Award for Literary Excellence, which recognises a lifetime's achievement in books. In 2015 A Spool of Blue Thread was a Sunday Times bestseller and shortlisted for both the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction and the Man Booker Prize. Her latest novel, Vinegar Girl, is a retelling of The Taming of the Shrew.