Digging to America A Novel

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Publisher's Synopsis

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.

Book information

ISBN: 9780307263940
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Imprint: Alfred A. Knopf
Pub date:
Edition: 1st Edition
DEWEY: 813.54
DEWEY edition: 22
Number of pages: 277
Weight: 585g
Height: 242mm
Width: 169mm
Spine width: 26mm