Writing and the Immigrant Experience Format:DVD Mary is sent to France

Mary is sent to France to wed its next king to save herself and her people

disrupt his supplies

has proposed they start a house-flipping business together along with his clueless brother

To top it off

In this award-winning film

Writing and the Immigrant Experience Format:DVD Mary is sent to FranceThe immigrant experience has inspired one of the richest strands in American literature. The writers in this collection of conversations from "The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer" discuss how that experience has influenced their writing. Authors include Frank McCourt, Edwidge Danticat, Jhumpa Lahiri, Oscar Hijuelos, Jeffrey Eugenides, and historian Carlos Eire.