![]() ![]() ![]() Somehow this big American takes up so much space that the orderly boundaries of her life feel invaded. When she finds herself being courted by one of the Donaldson clan, a good-hearted man of her vintage, recently widowed and still recovering from his wife' s death, suddenly all the values she cherishes- her traditions, her privacy, her otherness- are threatened. Even independent-minded Maryam is drawn in. After the babies from distant Asia are delivered, Bitsy Donaldson impulsively invites the Yazdans to celebrate with an " arrival party, " an event that is repeated every year as the two families become more deeply intertwined. Each couple is awaiting the arrival of an adopted infant daughter from Korea. ![]() In what is perhaps her richest and most deeply searching novel, Anne Tyler gives us a story about what it is to be an American, and about Maryam Yazdan, who after Thirty-five years in this country must finally come to terms with her " outsiderness." 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 American wife. ![]()
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