277 pages
English language
Published Nov. 8, 2006 by Alfred A. Knopf.
3 stars
(1 review)
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.
Subjects
- Iranian American women -- Fiction
- Assimilation (Sociology) -- Fiction
- Intercountry adoption -- Fiction
- Iranian Americans -- Fiction
- Women immigrants -- Fiction
- Friendship -- Fiction
- Widows -- Fiction
- Baltimore (Md.) -- Fiction