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02264aam a2200397 i 4500 001 53EFC57051AB11EC976C337B48ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20211130010101 008 190807t20172006||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 020 $a 034549234X 020 $a 9780345492340 035 $a (OCoLC)1111686827 040 $d TxAuBib $e rda $d SILO 100 1 $a Tyler, Anne. 245 1 $a Digging to America : $b a novel / $c Anne Tyler. 250 $a First Vintage Books edition. 264 1 $a New York : $b Vintage Books, $c 2017. 300 $a 277 pages ; $c 21 cm. 520 $a "Rich, tender, and searching, Digging to America challenges the notion that home is a fixed place, and celebrates the subtle complexities of life on all sides of the American experience. Two families meet at the Baltimore airport while waiting for their baby girls to arrive from Korea. The Iranian-American Sami and Ziba Yazdan, with Ziba's elegant and reserved mother, Maryam, in tow, wait quietly while brash and all-American Bitsy and Brad Donaldson, plus extended family, are armed with camcorders and a fleet of balloons proclaiming "It's a girl!" After they decide together to throw an impromptu "arrival party," a tradition is born, and so begins a lifelong friendship between the two families. As they raise their daughters, the Yazdan and Donaldson families grapple with questions of assimilation and identity. When Bitsy's recently widowed father sets his sights on Maryam, she must confront her own idea of what it means to be other, and of who she is and what she values."--Publisher's description. 541 $d 20210823. 650 7 $a Women immigrants $v Fiction. 650 $a Assimilation (Sociology) $v Fiction. 650 $a Iranian American women $v Fiction. 650 $a Intercountry adoption $v Fiction. 650 $a Friendship $v Fiction. 650 $a Widows $v Fiction. 650 $a Iranian Americans $v Fiction. 651 $a Baltimore (Md) $v Fiction. 655 7 $a Domestic fiction. 655 7 $a Psychological fiction. 655 7 $a Fiction. 655 7 $a Psychological fiction. 941 $a 2 952 $l DNPA403 $d 20230909010521.0 952 $l CLPC792 $d 20211130011555.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=53EFC57051AB11EC976C337B48ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search