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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 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... 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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