Digging to America : a novel /
- 1st ed.
- New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2006.
- 277 p. ; 25 cm.
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.
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Iranian American women--Fiction. Assimilation (Sociology)--Fiction. Intercountry adoption--Fiction. Iranian Americans--Fiction. Women immigrants--Fiction. Friendship--Fiction. Widows--Fiction.