Digging to America :
Tyler, Anne.
Digging to America : a novel / - 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.
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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.
PS3570.Y45 / D47 2006
813/.54
Digging to America : a novel / - 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.
0307263940
9780307263940
2005052963
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.
PS3570.Y45 / D47 2006
813/.54