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100 1  $a Tyler, Anne.
245 1  $a Digging to America $h [kit] : $b a novel / $c by Anne Tyler.
250    $a 1st large print ed.
260    $a New York : $b Random House Large Print, $c c2006.
300    $a 405 p. (large print) ; $c 25 cm.
520    $a 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.
650  0 $a Iranian American women $v Fiction.
650  0 $a Assimilation (Sociology) $v Fiction.
650  0 $a Intercountry adoption $v Fiction.
650  0 $a Iranian Americans $v Fiction.
650  0 $a Women immigrants $v Fiction.
650  0 $a Friendship $v Fiction.
650  0 $a Widows $v Fiction.
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651  0 $a Baltimore (Md.) $v Fiction.
655  0 $a Psychological fiction.
655  0 $a Domestic fiction.
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