Digging to America

A Novel

Paperback, 304 pages

English language

Published Aug. 28, 2007 by Ballantine Books.

ISBN:
978-0-345-49234-0
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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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Subjects

  • American Contemporary Fiction - Individual Authors +
  • Tyler, Anne - Prose & Criticism
  • Fiction
  • Fiction - General
  • Literary
  • Fiction / General
  • General