Digging to America : a novel / by Anne Tyler
By: Tyler, Anne [author].
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BookPublisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2006Edition: First edition.Description: 277 pages.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0307263940.Subject(s): Iranian American women -- FictionGenre/Form: Psychological fictionSummary: 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.
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| Book | Cubao Branch Fiction Area | Fiction | Fic T981d 2006 (Browse shelf) | Available | 121645d |
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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.
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