Bibliograph

Digging to America, [a novel], by Anne Tyler

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Digging to America, [a novel], by Anne Tyler

Language

eng

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not applicable

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Literary text for sound recordings

fiction

Main title

Digging to America

Medium

compact disc

Oclc number

65188684

Responsibility statement

by Anne Tyler

Sub title

[a novel]

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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