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Author:

Tyler, Anne.

Title:

Digging to America : a novel / by Anne Tyler.

Edition:

Doubleday large print home library 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.
Baltimore (Md.)--Fiction.
Friendship--Fiction.
Widows--Fiction.
Psychological fiction.
Domestic fiction.
Large type books.

Summary:

Two families awaiting the arrival of their adopted infant daughters from Korea meet at the airport. The families lives become intertwined 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

Locations:

WUPB305 -- Arnolds Park Public Library (Arnolds Park)

KSPG296 -- Burlington Public Library (Burlington)

CDPF771 -- Clive Public Library (Clive)

EBPE325 -- Estherville Public Library (Estherville)

SPPE104 -- Independence Public Library (Independence)

O3AX572 -- Cornell College - Russell D. Cole Library (Mount Vernon)

FGPD194 -- New Hampton Public Library (New Hampton)

AXPF626 -- Oskaloosa Public Library (Oskaloosa)

JKPC771 -- Polk City Community Library (Polk City)

D2PA173 -- Swaledale Public Library (Swaledale)

KQPC446 -- Winfield Public Library (Winfield)