Digging to America

About this book
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.
Details
- First published
- 2006
- Publisher
- Ullstein Taschenbuchvlg
- Pages
- 297
- ISBN-13
- 9783548608426
- OL Work ID
- OL28299W
Subjects
Social life and customsIranian American womenIranian AmericansWomen immigrantsFictionAssimilation (Sociology)IranierinAkkulturationIntercountry adoptionWidowsFriendshipAdopted childrenEmigration and immigrationManners and customsBaltimore (md.), fictionUnited states, social life and customs, fictionFiction, generalLarge type books