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Author:

Tyler, Anne.

Title:

Digging to America [kit] : a novel / by Anne Tyler.

Format:

[kit] :

Edition:

1st large print ed.

Publisher:

Random House Large Print,

Copyright Date:

c2006

Description:

405 p. (large print) ; 25 cm.

Subject:

Iranian American women--Fiction.
Assimilation (Sociology)--Fiction.
Intercountry adoption--Fiction.
Iranian Americans--Fiction.
Women immigrants--Fiction.
Friendship--Fiction.
Widows--Fiction.
Book group discussion kits.
Book club box.
Baltimore (Md.)--Fiction.
Psychological fiction.
Domestic fiction.

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:

9780739326428
0739326422

OCLC:

(OCoLC)64453437

LCCN:

2006007101

Locations:

MMPE553 -- Algona Public Library (Algona)

GBPF771 -- Ankeny Kirkendall Public Library (Ankeny)

LBPB837 -- Elk Horn Public Library (Elk Horn)

MXPG943 -- Fort Dodge Public Library (Fort Dodge)

RSPC135 -- Lake City Public Library (Lake City)

YEPF572 -- Marion Public Library (Marion)

LAPH975 -- Sioux City Public Library (Sioux City)

DPPE403 -- Kendall Young Library (Webster City)

GEPG771 -- West Des Moines Public Library (West Des Moines)