{"product_id":"the-english-american-paperback","title":"The English American - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAlison Larkin\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen 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 \u003ci\u003eThe English American\u003c\/i\u003e, a fabulously funny, deeply poignant debut novel that sprang from Larkin's autobiographical one-woman show of the same name. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Caught between two opposing cultures, two sets of parents, and two completely different men, Pippa is plunged 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... \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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.\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 368\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 8.44 x 5.8 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 17, 2009\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42731435819071,"sku":"9781439156537","price":19.2,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/9d76d27ed5ec772bc7b09acc97791e53.webp?v=1765128853","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/the-english-american-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}