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|aTyler, Anne
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|aDigging to America :|ba novel /|cAnne Tyler
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|aBallantine Books trade pbk. ed.
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|aNew York :|bBallantine Books,|c2007, c2006
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|a291 p. ;|c21 cm
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|aReader's circle
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|aIncludes Reader's Guide
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|aTwo 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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|aAssimilation (Sociology)|vFiction
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|aIntercountry adoption|vFiction
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|aIranian American women|vFiction
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|aIranian Americans|vFiction
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|aBaltimore (Md.)|vFiction
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|aNew book titles (April, 2010)
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|aOrange Prize for Fiction nominee, 2007
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|aLexile 840L
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