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Author:

Tyler, Anne

Title:

Digging to America : a novel / Anne Tyler.

Edition:

Ballantine Books trade pbk. ed.

Publisher:

Ballantine Books,

Copyright Date:

2007, c2006

Description:

291 p. ; 21 cm.

Subject:

Iranian American women--Fiction.
Assimilation (Sociology)--Fiction.
Intercountry adoption--Fiction.
Iranian Americans--Fiction.
Baltimore (Md.)--Fiction.
Psychological fiction.
Domestic fiction.

Notes:

Includes Reader's Guide.

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.

Series:

Reader's circle

ISBN:

034549234X
9780345492340

OCLC:

(OCoLC)148838118

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