Digging to America

3.6 avg 23916 votes

About this book

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.

3.6 ★★★★☆ average of 4 sources · 23916 votes
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Apple Books 3.5 38
Hardcover 3.8 17

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3.6/5 · 23916 readers · 308 pages · ≈ 5 h 42 m · Light

How long does it take to read Digging to America?

About ≈ 5 h 42 m — 308 pages, assuming roughly 250 words per page at 225 words per minute.Typical novel≈ 5 h 56 mDigging to America~5 h 42 m

How many pages is Digging to America?

308 pages in its most-read edition.Typical novel320Digging to America308

What genre is Digging to America?

It sits on the Fiction shelves.

Is Digging to America in the public domain?

No — it is still under copyright.

Who wrote Digging to America?

Anne Tyler (1941–0).

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