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Digging to America Cover Image Large Print Book

Digging to America [large print] / a novel by Anne Tyler.

Tyler, Anne. (Author).

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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  • ISBN: 0739326422
  • ISBN: 9780739326428
  • Physical Description: 405 pages (large print) ; 25 cm
  • Edition: large print, 1st edition
  • Publisher: New York : Random House Large Print, [2006]

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Subject:
Iranian American women > Fiction.
Assimilation (Sociology) > Fiction.
Intercountry adoption > Fiction.
Iranian Americans > Fiction.
Women immigrants > Fiction.
Friendship > Fiction.
Widows > Fiction.
Friendships.
Baltimore (Md.) > Fiction.
Genre:
Large print books.
Psychological fiction.
Domestic fiction.

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  • 14 of 15 copies available at NC Cardinal. (Show)
  • 1 of 1 copy available at Iredell County Public Library.

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