Tyler, Anne. <br/><br/>
Digging to America   a novel  
by Anne Tyler 
 - 1st ed. 
 - New York   Alfred A. Knopf  2006 
 - 323 p.   25 cm 
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780345499165 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2005052963 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Iranian American women--Fiction.<br/>Assimilation (Sociology)--Fiction.<br/>Intercountry adoption--Fiction.<br/>Iranian Americans--Fiction.<br/>Women immigrants--Fiction.<br/>Friendship--Fiction.<br/>Widows--Fiction.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Baltimore (Md.)--Fiction.
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<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PS3570.Y45  / D47 2006 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>813/.54