| Edition |
Ballantine Books trade paperback edition. |
| Description |
291 pages ; 21 cm. |
| Series |
Reader's circle |
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Ballantine reader's circle.
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| Note |
Includes Reader's Guide |
| Summary |
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. Maryam, who came to this country thirty-five years earlier, feels her values threatened when she is courted by a newly widowed Donaldson. A penetrating light on the American way as seen from two perspectives, those who are born here and those who are still struggling to fit in. |
| Subject |
Iranian American women -- Fiction.
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Assimilation (Sociology) -- Fiction.
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Intercountry adoption -- Fiction.
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Iranian Americans -- Fiction.
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Baltimore (Md.) -- Fiction.
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| ISBN |
9780345492340 |
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034549234X |
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