Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant

A Ballantine Book

Published by The Random House Publishing Group

Copyright © 1982 by Anne Tyler Modarressi

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Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 96-96729

eISBN: 978-0-307-78452-0

This edition published by arrangement with Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.

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