- Social life and customs, Iranian American women, Iranian Americans, Women immigrants
Two families awaiting the arrival of their adopted infant daughters from Korea meet at the airport. The families lives become interwined after the Donaldsons, a young American couple invite the Yazdan's, Maryam, her son and his Iranian American wife to an arrival party, which becomes an annual event.
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Classical in form, contemporary, earnest and contemplative.
- classical in formformally daring
- contemporarynostalgic
- earnestironic
- contemplativerelentless
- intimateepic
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About the book
- Author
- Anne Tyler
- First published
- 2006
- Pages
- 312
- Publisher
- Charnwood, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Random House
- Editions
- 28
- Language
- Russian, und, French, Dutch
- ISBN
- 9780345492340
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