num_pages: 330
description: SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORANGE PRIZEFriday August 15th, 1997. Two tiny Korean babies are delivered to two very different Baltimore families. Every year, on the anniversary of ‘Arrival Day’ the two families celebrate together, with more and more elaborately competitive parties, as little Susan and Jin-ho take roots and become American.OVER A MILLION ANNE TYLER BOOKS SOLD‘She’s changed my perception on life’ Anna Chancellor‘One of my favourite authors ’ Liane Moriarty‘She spins gold' Elizabeth Buchan‘Anne Tyler has no peer’ Anita Shreve‘My favourite writer, and the best line-and-length novelist in the world’ Nick Hornby‘A masterly author’ Sebastian Faulks‘Tyler is not merely good, she is wickedly good’ John Updike‘I love Anne Tyler’ Anita Brookner‘Her fiction has strength of vision, originality, freshness, unconquerable humour’ Eudora Welty
language: English
title: Digging to America
titlecomplete: Digging to America
characters: Ziba Yazdam, Dave Donaldson, Sami Yazdam, Jin-Ho, Bitsy Donaldson, Sooki "Susan", Maryam Yazdam
genres: Adult, Adult Fiction, Novels, Family, Audiobook, Contemporary, Literary Fiction, Fiction, Book Club, Adoption
ratings_count: 22110
places: Baltimore, Maryland
awards: awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: Orange Prize
category: Fiction Shortlist, awardedAt: 1199174400000
name: Dublin Literary Award
publisher: Vintage