TY - BOOK AU - Tyler,Anne TI - Digging to America: : a novel SN - 0307263940 U1 - Fic PY - 2006/// CY - New York PB - Alfred A. Knopf KW - Iranian American women KW - Fiction KW - lcgft KW - Psychological fiction N2 - 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 ER -