Digging to America
By: Anne Tyler
Edition: Large print ed.
Publisher: Charnwood
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Leicester
Language: eng
Number of pages: 340
ISBN-13: 9781846175442
Subjects: Intercountry adoption; Fiction; Social life and customs; Manners and customs
Description: On Friday August 15th, 1997, two Korean babies are delivered to Baltimore to two families who have nothing else in common. The Donaldsons: decent Brad and homespun Bitsy, two sets of grandparents and a host of relatives, take delivery with characteristic razzmatazz. Then there are the Yazdans, pretty, nervous Ziba and carefully assimilated Sami, with his Iranian-born widowed mother Maryam. 'Arrival Day' is marked every year when their two extended families celebrate together with increasingly competitive parties: tiny, delicate Susan, stocky Jin-ho and, later, her new little sister Xiu-Mei, take roots, become American. Meanwhile, Maryam contrarily preserves her 'outsider' status, as if to prove that, despite her passport, she is only a guest in this bewildering country.
Notes: Originally published: London: Chatto & Windus.