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Digging to America - Anne Tyler

 

Description: ISBN 0099499398 / Author: Anne Tyler / Genre: Fiction

Newest Review: ... at an airport for the arrival of two babies from Korea which they are adopting. One of the families is called Donaldson and ... more

 ... 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 is like to be American. There is also a brief insight of Iranian-American Culture. Maryan Yazdan struggles with there coming together as two families to celebrate the arrival of their adopted children from Korea. On...more

RUTH1957
Premium Review Digging to America - Anne Tyler: Digging to America (228 words)
by RUTH1957 - written on 05/05/08 (Useful, 50 readings)
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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 ...

MALU
Crowned Review Adopted Aliens (1039 words)
by MALU - written on 31/07/07 (Very useful, 206 readings)
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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 ...

 

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