TY  - BOOK
AU  - Tyler,Anne
TI  - Digging to America : a novel 
SN  - 9780345499165
AV  - PS3570.Y45 D47 2006
U1  - 813/.54 22
PY  - 2006///
CY  - New York 
PB  - Alfred A. Knopf
KW  - Iranian American women
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Assimilation (Sociology)
KW  - Intercountry adoption
KW  - Iranian Americans
KW  - Women immigrants
KW  - Friendship
KW  - Widows
KW  - Baltimore (Md.)
KW  - Psychological fiction
KW  - lcsh
KW  - Domestic fiction
N2  - 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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