“While Pearl Tull was dying, a funny thought occurred to her. It twitched her lips and rustled her breath, and she felt her son lean forward from where he kept watch by her bed. “Get…” she told him. “You should have got…”
‘Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant’ by Anne Tyler
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Read my reviews of Anne Tyler’s A Spool of Blue Thread and Vinegar Girl.

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