Digging to America - Softcover

Tyler, Anne

Softcover

ISBN 10: 034549234X ISBN 13: 9780345492340

Publisher: Vintage, 2007

Synopsis

New York Times Bestseller

Rich, tender, and searching, Digging to America challenges the notion that home is a fixed place, and celebrates the subtle complexities of life on all sides of the American experience.

Two families meet at the Baltimore airport while waiting for their baby girls to arrive from Korea. The Iranian-American Sami and Ziba Yazdan, with Ziba's elegant and reserved mother, Maryam, in tow, wait quietly while brash and all-American Bitsy and Brad Donaldson, plus extended family, are armed with camcorders and a fleet of balloons proclaiming "It's a girl!" After they decide together to throw an impromptu "arrival party," a tradition is born, and so begins a lifelong friendship between the two families.

As they raise their daughters, the Yazdan and Donaldson families grapple with questions of assimilation and identity. When Bitsy's recently widowed father sets his sights on Maryam, she must confront her own idea of what it means to be other, and of who she is and what she values.

About this title

Review:

"To read a novel by Anne Tyler is to fall in love." --People

"Startlingly fresh while retaining everything we love about her work." --The Washington Post Book World

"Touching . . . a reassuringly honest and heartful examination of coming and good intentions." --Miami Herald

From the Publisher:

Another gem from the incomparable Anne Tyler, sparkling with diamond-sharp wit and observation, glowing with the warmth of her characters’ multifaceted, flawed, resilient humanity.

About this edition

• Publisher: Vintage
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 034549234X
• ISBN 13: 9780345492340
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288