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Digging to America : a novel /

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2006.Edition: 1st edDescription: 277 p. ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 0307263940
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 813/.54 22
LOC classification:
  • PS3570.Y45 D47 2006
Online resources: Summary: 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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Item type Home library Collection Call number Vol info Copy number Status Date due Barcode
F F Chamberlin Free Public Library Fiction F TYL (Browse shelf(Opens below)) PS3570.Y45 D47 2006 1 Available 34517000277338

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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