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02333cam a2200493 a 4500 001 E8AAF64085B611DE8B24A529A8D7520A 003 SILO 005 20200122010321 008 060731s2006 nyu 000 1 eng 010 $a 2005052963 020 $a 9780307263940 020 $a 0307263940 040 $a DLC $c DLC $d SILO $d BAKER $d IOS $d OCO $d NSB $d IXA $d DLC $d SILO 043 $a n-us-md 050 00 $a PS3570.Y45 $b D47 2006 082 00 $a 813/.54 $2 22 100 1 $a Tyler, Anne. 245 1 $a Digging to America : $b a novel / $c by Anne Tyler. 250 $a 1st ed. 260 $a New York : $b Alfred A. Knopf, $c 2006. 300 $a 277 p. ; $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. 651 0 $a Baltimore (Md.) $v Fiction. 655 7 $a Psychological fiction. $2 lcsh 655 7 $a Domestic fiction. $2 lcsh 856 42 $3 Contributor biographical information $u http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0625/2005052963-b. html 856 42 $3 Publisher description $u http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0625/2005052963-d. html 941 $a 8 952 $l REPC017 $d 20220407013223.0 952 $l SKPC094 $d 20190504013016.0 952 $l JDPC145 $d 20190424010620.0 952 $l XSPE157 $d 20150425024402.0 952 $l JLPF081 $d 20150213085721.0 952 $l ZBPE245 $d 20131219013050.0 952 $l ZFPA245 $d 20111108013705.0 952 $l BFPA251 $d 20100909175024.0 $m F TYL 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=E8AAF64085B611DE8B24A529A8D7520AInitiate Another SILO Locator Search