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Digging to AmericaDigging to America

Digging to America2006

Anne Tyler

3.0(1)on Hardcover

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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

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