SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORANGE PRIZEFriday August 15th 1997 Two tiny Korean babies are delivered to two very different Baltimore families Every year on the anniversary of Arrival Day' the two families celebrate together with more & more elaborately competitive parties as little Susan & Jin-ho take roots & become American OVER A MILLION ANNE TYLER BOOKS SOLDShe's changed my perception on life' Anna Chancellor One of my favourite authors ' Liane Moriarty She spins gold' Elizabeth Buchan Anne Tyler has no peer' Anita Shreve My favourite writer & the best line-&-length novelist in the world' Nick Hornby A masterly author' Sebastian Faulks Tyler is not merely good she is wickedly good' John Updike I love Anne Tyler' Anita Brookner Her fiction has strength of vision originality freshness unconquerable humour' Eudora Welty