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Informationen zum Autor Anne Tyler was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 1941 and grew up in Raleigh, North Carolina. Her bestselling novels include Breathing Lessons , The Accidental Tourist , Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant , Ladder of Years , Back When We Were Grown-ups , Digging to America , A Spool of Blue Thread, Clock Dance, Redhead by the Side of the Road and French Braid. In 1989 she won the Pulitzer Prize; in 1994 she was nominated by Roddy Doyle and Nick Hornby as 'the greatest novelist writing in English'; and in 2012 she received the Sunday Times Award for Literary Excellence. In 2015 A Spool of Blue Thread was shortlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction and the Booker Prize; and in 2020 Redhead by the Side of the Road was longlisted for the Booker Prize. Klappentext Glowing reviews greeted Anne Tyler's latest beautifully crafted novel exploring the frailties and foibles of humanity - what it means to belong to a family and to a country. Two Korean babies are adopted by Baltimore families; each year they celebrate 'Arrival Day' together, with a succession of ever-more elaborate parties. Competitiveness, misunderstanding and toe-curlingly funny moments unfurl in a novel with an apparently small domestic canvas and subtly large themes. Zusammenfassung 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.
