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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the beloved Pulitzer Prize–winning author—a rich and compelling novel about a mismatched marriage and its consequences, spanning three generations
They seemed like the perfect couple—young, good-looking, made for each other. The moment Pauline, a stranger to the Polish Eastern Avenue neighborhood of Baltimore (though she lived only twenty minutes away),...
They seemed like the perfect couple—young, good-looking, made for each other. The moment Pauline, a stranger to the Polish Eastern Avenue neighborhood of Baltimore (though she lived only twenty minutes away),...
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Random House Audio
Pub. Date
p2006
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Unabridged ed.
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7 sound discs (ca. 8 hr., 30 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Two Korean baby girls are adopted by two very different American families who meet for the first time when the girls first arrive at Baltimore/Washington International Airport. The differences between the parenting styles, one a middle class, white American couple, the other Iranian-American, showcase how cultural identity is defined and developed in the U.S.
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"From the beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning author--now in the fiftieth year of her remarkable career--a brilliantly observed, joyful and wrenching, funny and true new novel that reveals, as only she can, the very nature of a family's life. "It was a beautiful, breezy, yellow-and-green afternoon." This is the way Abby Whitshank always begins the story of how she fell in love with Red that day in July 1959. The whole family--their two daughters and two...