Digging to America
(2006)
By:
Tyler, Anne
Fiction
Book
Call Numbers:
ESL/FICTION/TYLER,A
FICTION/TYLER,A
FICTION/TYLER,A
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2006
EDITION
First edition
DESCRIPTION
277 pages ; 25 cm
ISBN/ISSN
0307263940, 9780307263940, 9780345492340
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
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