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ENGLISH AMERICAN, THE by Alison Larkin - FIRST EDITION BOOKSee all titles by Alison Larkin.When Pippa Dunn,adopted as an infant and raised terribly British,
discovers that her birth parents are from the American South, she finds
that "culture clash" has layers of meaning she'd never imagined. Meet The English American, a fabulously funny, deeply poignant debut novel that sprang from Larkin's autobiographical one-woman show of the same name.
In
many ways, Pippa Dunn is very English: she eats Marmite on toast, knows
how to make a proper cup of tea, has attended a posh English boarding
school, and finds it entirely familiar to discuss the crossword rather
than exchange any cross words over dinner with her proper English
family. Yet Pippa -- creative, disheveled, and impulsive to the core --
has always felt different from her perfectly poised, smartly coiffed
sister and steady, practical parents, whose pastimes include Scottish
dancing, gardening, and watching cricket.
When Pippa learns at age
twenty-eight that her birth parents are from the American South, she
feels that lifelong questions have been answered. She meets her birth
mother, an untidy, artistic, free-spirited redhead, and her birth
father, a charismatic (and politically involved) businessman in
Washington, D.C.; and she moves to America to be near them. At the same
time, she relies on the guidance of a young man with whom she feels a
mysterious connection; a man who discovered his own estranged father
and who, like her birth parents, seems to understand her in a way that
no one in her life has done before. Pippa feels she has found her
"self" and everything she thought she wanted. But has she?
Caught
between two opposing cultures, two sets of parents, and two completely
different men, Pippa isplunged into hilarious, heart-wrenching chaos.
The birth father she adores turns out to be involved in neoconservative
activities she hates; the mesmerizing mother who once abandoned her now
refuses to let her go. And the man of her fantasies may be just that... With
an authentic adopted heroine at its center, Larkin's compulsively
readable first novel unearths universal truths about love, identity,
and family with wit, warmth, and heart.
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