false 2154997 8 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 <I>The English American</i>, a fabulously funny, deeply poignant debut novel that sprang from Larkin's autobiographical one-woman show of the same name.<P>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.<P>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?<P>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...<P>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. 2841357 2001 The English American: A Novel total:379|5:55|4:131|3:131|2:51|1:11| 379 1305 729 130 2154997 141655159X 9781416551591 373 127 3.44 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2154997.The_English_American_A_Novel 1 1 false Tue Apr 15 10:54:09 -0700 2008 Thu Mar 20 22:02:21 -0700 2008 Tue Apr 15 10:53:43 -0700 2008 more...]]> 2154997 141655159X 9781416551591 373 127 3.44 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2154997.The_English_American_A_Novel 2 2 false Tue Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Feb 13 18:55:52 -0800 2008 Wed Jul 09 21:42:16 -0700 2008
Plus, I get it, Americans cannot "...more...]]> 2154997 141655159X 9781416551591 373 127 3.44 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2154997.The_English_American_A_Novel 4 0 false Mon Sep 07 13:05:41 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 07 13:05:45 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2154997 141655159X 9781416551591 373 127 3.44 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2154997.The_English_American_A_Novel 1 0 false Thu Aug 06 08:48:17 -0700 2009 Thu Aug 06 08:56:38 -0700 2009
Pippa Dunn is an adoptee from the U.S. raised in a British home. Although her adoptive family is appropriately loving, she feels she ...more...]]> 2154997 141655159X 9781416551591 373 127 3.44 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2154997.The_English_American_A_Novel 3 0 false Sun Aug 30 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 14 07:40:55 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 14 07:41:29 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2154997 141655159X 9781416551591 373 127 3.44 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2154997.The_English_American_A_Novel 4 0 false Tue Jan 20 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Feb 10 12:27:22 -0800 2009 Tue Feb 10 12:56:43 -0800 2009 more...]]> 2154997 141655159X 9781416551591 373 127 3.44 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2154997.The_English_American_A_Novel 5 1 false Sat Apr 19 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Apr 07 05:17:37 -0700 2008 Sat Apr 19 07:08:08 -0700 2008 more...]]> 2154997 141655159X 9781416551591 373 127 3.44 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2154997.The_English_American_A_Novel 3 0 false Sun Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Feb 01 07:13:28 -0800 2009 Sun Feb 01 07:21:41 -0800 2009
Pippa Dunn was born in America, adopted by English parents, raised in Africa, ...more...]]> 2154997 141655159X 9781416551591 373 127 3.44 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2154997.The_English_American_A_Novel 3 0 false Sat Oct 10 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 13 19:02:30 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 13 19:17:11 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2154997 141655159X 9781416551591 373 127 3.44 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2154997.The_English_American_A_Novel 5 1 false Sun Aug 17 11:38:01 -0700 2008 Sun Aug 17 11:38:44 -0700 2008 2154997 141655159X 9781416551591 373 127 3.44 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2154997.The_English_American_A_Novel 5 0 false Mon Sep 07 10:14:54 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 07 10:15:00 -0700 2009 When Pippa is born, she is adopted by an English couple. She struggles with feeling like an outcast. She isn't quite sure where she belongs. She has friends and she knows that her adoptive family loves her, but she can't help feeling like something is missing.

Pippa finally decides ...more...]]> 2154997 141655159X 9781416551591 373 127 3.44 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2154997.The_English_American_A_Novel 4 0 false Sun Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Mar 11 10:16:43 -0700 2009 Tue Apr 21 14:45:24 -0700 2009
The main character, Pippa, whose American parents gave her up at birth, was adopted by English parents. She doesn't always fit in with her well-mannered English fam...more...]]> 2154997 141655159X 9781416551591 373 127 3.44 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2154997.The_English_American_A_Novel 2 0 false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 03 07:35:00 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 12 18:51:32 -0800 2009 more...]]> 6924525 1 1 3.44 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6924525-the-engish-american 2 0 false Tue Sep 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 29 20:30:54 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 29 20:31:34 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5047696 1 1 3.44 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5047696.The_English_Americn 3 0 false Sun Oct 12 20:19:10 -0700 2008 Sun Oct 12 20:29:03 -0700 2008 more...]]> 2154997 141655159X 9781416551591 373 127 3.44 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2154997.The_English_American_A_Novel 1 1 false Sun Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon May 19 15:01:26 -0700 2008 Sat Jun 07 09:32:04 -0700 2008
Unfortunately, the birth mother was so disgusting a character - a total liar, utterly selfish, hateful and un...more...]]> 2154997 141655159X 9781416551591 373 127 3.44 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2154997.The_English_American_A_Novel 4 0 false Thu Apr 24 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Apr 24 08:02:06 -0700 2008 Thu Apr 24 08:20:11 -0700 2008 Have you ever had a conversation that seemed like it SHOULD never end? Well, this book is like one of those conversations. Perhaps it is because the author is a gifted 'presentation artist'...more...]]> 2154997 141655159X 9781416551591 373 127 3.44 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2154997.The_English_American_A_Novel 5 0 false Mon Apr 14 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Apr 14 17:15:03 -0700 2008 Mon Apr 14 20:57:13 -0700 2008 more...]]> 2154997 141655159X 9781416551591 373 127 3.44 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2154997.The_English_American_A_Novel 3 0 false Sat Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Wed Mar 19 08:22:59 -0700 2008 Wed Mar 19 08:37:06 -0700 2008 more...]]> 2154997 141655159X 9781416551591 373 127 3.44 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2154997.The_English_American_A_Novel 4 0 false Sat Mar 14 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Mar 14 08:24:47 -0700 2009 Sat Mar 14 17:42:56 -0700 2009 It's a woman's journey to find herself, both literally, but also of course figuratively.
She was adopted as a newborn, and decides to find her birth parents, and finds out about herself.
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