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By TUTT STEPP-HARRIS
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At The Library
Three dramatic readings from Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant, performed by Steve and Micheiene Hostetter and Stuart Eiland of the Rappahannock Players in conjunction with the first of the Library's lecture series on needs dealing with famiHea and communities, highlighted one root of isolation today—the change of family from a unit of stability to a unit characterized by mobility.
The readings depicted three rides that a young boy accepts while hitchiking. In each case, he encounters individuals from broken families who are simply riding around, in varying degrees of aimlessness, escaping the present and wondering what happened to their pasts. As far as the ftiture, the final woman with whom he rides holds few dreams: “Tonight, I’ll just fix a tuna salad.”
Central to professor Jan Cohn’s discussion of Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant were cultural changes that are demonstrated by familiea like the one in the novel who are seemingly driven apart—communities and families used to be groups into which one was simply born; to the younger generation in the novel, communities and families must be created, and it is this
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