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Author:

Tyler, Anne.

Title:

Digging to America : a novel by Anne Tyler.

Edition:

1st large print ed.

Publisher:

Random House Large Print

Copyright Date:

c2006

Description:

405 p. (large print) ;

Subject:

Assimilation (Sociology)--Fiction.
Baltimore (Md.)--Fiction.
Domestic fiction.
Friendship--Fiction.
Intercountry adoption--Fiction.
Iranian American women--Fiction.
Iranian Americans--Fiction.
Large type books.
Psychological fiction.
Widows--Fiction.
Women immigrants--Fiction.
25 cm.

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:

0739468006
9780739468005

LCCN:

20060071

Locations:

AOPB937 -- Humeston Public Library (Humeston)

WNPA185 -- Quimby Public Library (Quimby)