The English American

I picked up this book on a recommendation from Heather Armstrong's blog and then, upon bringing it home from the library, decided not to read it. Then I picked it back up again. Being adopted myself, I was hesitant to read the book. I was skeptical at first but I ended up really enjoying it! Pippa was an interesting character undergoing a quite visible identity crisis. I wonder, though, if Larkin preyed on Americans' perceptions of the stiff British lip and British perceptions of the American gregariousness. I disliked both of Pippa's birth parents, which I think says something about the importance of nurture over nature, of ‘real' parents versus those who gave birth to us (for those adoptees).