Digging to America
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.
Buy this book at Amazon- Publisher
- Penguin Random House
- Year
- 1998
- ISBN-13
- 9785864717592
- Genre
- Fiction
- Topics
- Adoption and familyCultural identity and immigrationLove and belonging
Awards
- Women's Prize for FictionShortlistedMajor(2007)
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