01912cam a2200373 4500 444352261 TxAuBib 20201023120000.0 050901s2006||||||||||||d|||||||||||eng|u 2005052963 9780739468005 0739468006 TxAuBib Tyler, Anne. Digging to America : a novel / by Anne Tyler. 1st ed. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2006. 277 p. ; 25 cm. 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. 20201023. Iranian American women Fiction. Assimilation (Sociology) Fiction. Intercountry adoption Fiction. Iranian Americans Fiction. Women immigrants Fiction. Friendship Fiction. Widows Fiction. Baltimore (Md) Fiction. Psychological fiction. Domestic fiction. https://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0625/2005052963-b.html Contributor biographical information https://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0625/2005052963-d.html Publisher description https://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0664/2005052963-s.html Sample text