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4 · 312 pages · First published 1998
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.
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Subjects
Social life and customsIranian American womenIranian AmericansWomen immigrantsFictionAssimilation (Sociology)IranierinAkkulturationIntercountry adoptionWidowsFriendshipAdopted childrenEmigration and immigrationManners and customsBaltimore (md.), fictionUnited states, social life and customs, fictionFiction, generalLarge type booksFiction, psychologicalFriendship, fiction
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- Cargo, Alfred A. Knopf, Doubleday Canada, Ballantine Books, Random House Inc., Penguin Random House
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- dut, eng, und, rus, fre, spa