"Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant" by Anne Tyler

"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 you cannot live without it. "The family is the base from which the individual moves into society and acquires a sense of community." …