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Author:

Tyler, Anne.

Title:

Digging to America (spoken digital player) : a novel / Anne Tyler.

Format:

(spoken digital player) :

Edition:

Unabridged.

Publisher:

Findaway World,

Copyright Date:

c2006

Description:

1 sound media player (8.5 hr.) : digital ; 8 x 5 cm.

Subject:

Iranian American women--Fiction.
Assimilation (Sociology)--Fiction.
Intercountry adoption--Fiction.
Iranian Americans--Fiction.
Women immigrants--Fiction.
Baltimore (Md.)--Fiction.
Friendship--Fiction.
Widows--Fiction.
Psychological fiction.
Domestic fiction.
Audiobooks.

Other Authors:

Brown, Blair.

Notes:

Requires headphones for use. Issued on Playaway, a dedicated audio media player. Read by Blair Brown.

Summary:

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.

ISBN:

9781598951585
1598951580

Locations:

AXPF626 -- Oskaloosa Public Library (Oskaloosa)