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02209cam a2200493Ia 4500 001 012654D62B0C11DE82774608A8D7520A 003 SILO 005 20211120010853 008 061204s2006 nyu d 000 1 eng 020 $a 9780739326428 020 $a 0739326422 040 $a ORK $c ORK $d SILO $d IMV $d SILO 100 1 $a Tyler, Anne. 245 1 $a Digging to America : $b a novel / $c by Anne Tyler. 250 $a Doubleday large print home library 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 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. 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. 651 0 $a Baltimore (Md.) $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Friendship $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Widows $v Fiction. 655 0 $a Psychological fiction. 655 0 $a Domestic fiction. 655 0 $a Large type books. 941 $a 11 945 $a lpt 952 $l JKPC771 $d 20150409055130.0 952 $l KQPC446 $d 20150228011758.0 952 $l EBPE325 $d 20150227013904.0 952 $l WUPB305 $d 20120928012009.0 952 $l FGPD194 $d 20101105011259.0 952 $l O3AX572 $d 20090806133710.0 952 $l SPPE104 $d 20090701080000.0 952 $l KSPG296 $d 20090701080000.0 952 $l D2PA173 $d 20090701080000.0 952 $l CDPF771 $d 20090701080000.0 952 $l AXPF626 $d 20090701080000.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=012654D62B0C11DE82774608A8D7520A 994 $a 02 $b IMVInitiate Another SILO Locator Search