Title Digging to America / a novel by Anne Tyler.

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Location	Call No.	Status	OPAC Message	Public Note	Gift Note
Moore Stacks	PS3570.Y45 D47 2006	Available	---

Edition	1st ed.
Description	277 pages ; 25 cm
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.
Subject	Iranian American women -- Fiction.
	Iranian American women.
Genre/Form	Fiction.
Subject	Assimilation (Sociology) -- Fiction.
	Assimilation (Sociology)
	Intercountry adoption -- Fiction.
	Intercountry adoption.
	Iranian Americans -- Fiction.
	Iranian Americans.
	Women immigrants -- Fiction.
	Women immigrants.
	Baltimore (Md.) -- Fiction.
	Friendship -- Fiction.
	Friendship -- Fiction.
	Widows -- Fiction.
	Widows.
	Friendships.
Genre/Form	Fiction.
ISBN	0307263940
Standard No.	9780307263940