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Author:

Tyler, Anne.

Title:

Digging to America : a novel / by Anne Tyler.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publisher:

Alfred A. Knopf,

Copyright Date:

2006

Description:

277 p. ; 25 cm.

Subject:

Iranian American women--Fiction.
Assimilation (Sociology)--Fiction.
Intercountry adoption--Fiction.
Iranian Americans--Fiction.
Women immigrants--Fiction.
Friendship--Fiction.
Widows--Fiction.
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:

9780307263940
0307263940

LCCN:

2005052963

Locations:

XSPE157 -- Atlantic Public Library (Atlantic)

JLPF081 -- Ericson Public Library (Boone)

ZBPE245 -- Norelius Community Library (Denison)

REPC017 -- Greenfield Public Library (Greenfield)

JDPC145 -- Manning Public Library (Manning)

BFPA251 -- Minburn Public Library (Minburn) — F TYL

SKPC094 -- Sumner Public Library (Sumner)

ZFPA245 -- Westside Public Library (Westside)