Digging to America : a novel / by Anne Tyler

By:

Tyler, Anne [author]

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2006Edition: First editionDescription: 277 pagesContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

0307263940

Subject(s):

Iranian American women -- Fiction

Genre/Form:

Psychological fiction

DDC classification:

Summary: Two families awaiting the arrival of their adopted infant daughters from Korea meet at the airport. The families lives become intertwined 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	Barcode
Book	Cubao Branch Fiction Area	Fiction	Fic T981d 2006 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available	121645d

Two families awaiting the arrival of their adopted infant daughters from Korea meet at the airport. The families lives become intertwined 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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