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Digging to America

Anne Tyler

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#2668 of 8,085 books · #1180 in Fiction

Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction (2007).

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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Publisher
Penguin Random House
ISBN-13
9785864717592
Genre
Fiction
Topics
Adoption and familyCultural identity and immigrationLove and belonging

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