Anne Tyler manages to create such believable characters time and time again and in Digging to America she delivers yet again. The two families in the novel are linked forever by the Korean children they have each adopted. They celebrate “Arrival Day” each year with a party together. Through the various parties and with the passage of time Tyler explores the characters’ differences, their varying hopes and dreams, cultural backgrounds, sense of fitting in.
A brilliant scenario for putting these different families together and beautifully written.
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the beloved, Pulitzer Prize-winning author comes "an intimate picture of middle-class family life" (The New York Times) that challenges the notion that home is a fixed place, and celebrates the subtle complexities of life on all sides of the American experience.
| Primary Genre | Modern and Contemporary Fiction |
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Two families meet at the Baltimore airport while waiting for their baby girls to arrive from Korea. As they raise their daughters, the Yazdan and Donaldson families grapple with questions of assimilation and identity.
Digging to America features in the following genres: Modern and Contemporary Fiction, eBooks of the Month, General Fiction, Fiction, Recommendations
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Digging to America was written by Anne Tyler and published by Vintage Books an imprint of Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Digging to America has 288 pages
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