SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORANGE PRIZE
Friday August 15th, 1997. Two tiny Korean babies are delivered to two very different Baltimore families. Every year, on the anniversary of Arrival Day the two families celebrate together, with more and more elaborately competitive parties, as little Susan and Jin-ho take roots and become American.
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Anne Tyler was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 1941 and grew up in Raleigh, North Carolina. Her bestselling novels includeBreathing Lessons,The Accidental Tourist,Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant,Ladder of Years,Back When We Were Grownups, A Patchwork Planet, The Amateur Marriage, Digging to America, A Spool of Blue Threadand Vinegar Girl.
In 1989 she won the Pulitzer Prize forBreathing Lessons; in 1994 she was nominated by Roddy Doyle and Nick Hornby as 'the greatest novelist writing in English'; in 2012 she received the Sunday Times Award for Literary Excellence; and in 2015A Spool of Blue Threadwas aSunday Timesbestseller and was shortlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction and the Man Booker Prize.
