Digging to America a novel by Anne Tyler

By:

Tyler, Anne

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York Alfred A. Knopf 2006Edition: 1st edDescription: 323 p. 25 cmISBN:

9780345499165

Uniform titles:

Digging to America

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DDC classification:

813/.54 22

LOC classification:

PS3570.Y45 D47 2006

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Summary: 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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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Books	GESM Library Main Library	English Fiction Adolescent-Adult	EFA/ SL/ TYL D573	Available		E0000893

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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