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010    $a 20060071
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020    $a 9780739468005
040    $d SILO
100 1  $a Tyler, Anne.
245 1  $a Digging to America : $b a novel $c by Anne Tyler.
250    $a 1st large print ed.
260    $a New York $b Random House Large Print $c c2006.
300    $a 405 p. (large print) ;
520    $a Two families awaiting the arrival of their adopted infant daughters from Korea meet at the airport. The families lives become interwined after the Donaldsons, a young American couple invite the Yazdan's, Maryam, her son and his Iranian American wife to an arrival party, which becomes an annual event. Maryam, who came to this country thirty-five years earlier, feels her values threatened when she is courted by a newly widowed Donaldson. A penetrating light on the American way as seen from two perspectives, those who are born here and those who are still struggling to fit in.
650    $a Assimilation (Sociology) $x Fiction.
650    $a Baltimore (Md.) $x Fiction.
650    $a Domestic fiction.
650    $a Friendship $x Fiction.
650    $a Intercountry adoption $x Fiction.
650    $a Iranian American women $x Fiction.
650    $a Iranian Americans $x Fiction.
650    $a Large type books.
650    $a Psychological fiction.
650    $a Widows $x Fiction.
650    $a Women immigrants $x Fiction.
653    $a 25 cm.
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956    $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=FDAF0DDA2B0F11DEAA7E7608A8D7520A