Digging to America : a novel by Anne Tyler.
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TextPublisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2006Edition: 1st edDescription: 277 p. ; 25 cmISBN: 0307263940Subject(s): Iranian American women -- Fiction | Assimilation (Sociology) -- Fiction | Intercountry adoption -- Fiction | Iranian Americans -- Fiction | Women immigrants -- Fiction | Friendship -- Fiction | Widows -- Fiction | Baltimore (Md.) -- FictionGenre/Form: Psychological fiction. | Domestic fiction.DDC classification: 813/.54 LOC classification: PS3570.Y45 | D47 2006Online resources: Contributor biographical information | Publisher description 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.
| Item type | Home library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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| Book | A J M Library 868-5076 | TYLE (Browse shelf) | Available | 18792 |
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.
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