Digging to America - Anne Tyler

This book Digging To America by Anne Tyler is a very enjoyable. The author was suggested to me by a work mate.I am pleased he did as over this weekend I found myself absorbed in this book. The story is about Two families that were waiting at an airport for the arrival of two babies from Korea which they are adopting. One of the families is called Donaldson and very American, the other family is Iranian there name is Yasdan. The family came from Iran a long time ago so there son was born in America so in fact they are Iranian-American. As you read on the story goes into how the families start coming together and then start to find out between them what it ...

Who is an American? Besides the people who’ve lived in the US of A since the founding of the state also every immigrant who’s got the permit to live there; technically that’s right, of course, but it takes more than a piece of paper to make a foreigner a member of the American society. The idealistic idea of the melting pot has long been abandoned, the salad bowl or the mosaic are favoured now, a mixture but with the individual ingredients still discernable. Digging To America is about ‘real’ Americans, as American as Big Macs, first and second generation immigrants and brand new arrivals and how they get along with each other. The setting is Baltimore, the ...