![]() ![]() ![]() All three were nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the third won it. She has published 20 novels, the best known of which are Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant (1983), The Accidental Tourist (1985), and Breathing Lessons (1988). ( From the publisher.)Īnne Tyler is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist, short story writer, and literary critic. ![]() When she finds herself being courted by Bitsy Donaldson’s recently widowed father, all the values she cherishes-her traditions, her privacy, her otherness-are suddenly threatened. After the instant babies from distant Asia are delivered, Bitsy Donaldson impulsively invites the Yazdans to celebrate: an “arrival party” that from then on is repeated every year as the two families become more and more deeply intertwined.Įven Maryam is drawn in-up to a point. Two families, who would otherwise never have come together, meet by chance at the Baltimore airport-the Donaldsons, a very American couple, and the Yazdans, Maryam’s fully assimilated son and his attractive Iranian wife.Įach couple is awaiting the arrival of an adopted infant daughter from Korea. Anne Tyler’s richest, most deeply searching novel–a story about what it is to be an American, and about Iranian-born Maryam Yazdan, who, after 35 years in this country, must finally come to terms with her “outsiderness.” ![]()
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