Author: Tyler, Anne
Title: Digging to America : A Novel
Description: New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 2006. First printing. Hardcover. 277pp. 25 cm. Fine condition/very good, Summaru: 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.

Keywords: 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 Fic