Digging to America
Subtitle: a novel
By: Anne Tyler
Edition: Ballantine Books trade pbk. ed.
Series: Reader's circle; Ballantine reader's circle
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 291
ISBN-13: 9780345492340
Copyright date: 2006
Subjects: Intercountry adoption; Assimilation (Sociology); Iranian Americans; Iranian American women; Fiction
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes Reader's Guide