Gill Hornby

Trials Of Adoption

Digging to America

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The adoption of children from faraway countries is a sociological innovation of our internationalist age. Since the 1990s, when the governments of the Far East finally opened up to the eager adoptive parents of the wealthy West, thousands of babies have made the long journey into a new land and a different culture. How very natural that Anne Tyler, that keen-eyed chronicler of modern family life, should want to pick up and examine the minute domestic implications of their arrival.

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