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Also by Anne Tyler:

Three Days in June, February 2025
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French Braid, April 2022
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A Spool of Blue Thread, February 2015
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DIGGING TO AMERICA
By: Anne Tyler

Ballantine
September 2007
On Sale: August 28, 2007
304 pages
ISBN: 034549234X
EAN: 9780345492340
Paperback (reprint)
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Fiction

Two families, who would otherwise never have come together, meet by chance at the Baltimore airport – the Donaldsons, a very American couple, and the Yazdans, Maryam’s fully assimilated son and his attractive Iranian wife. Each couple is awaiting the arrival of an adopted infant daughter from Korea. After the instant babies from distant Asia are delivered, Bitsy Donaldson impulsively invites the Yazdans to celebrate: an “arrival party” that from then on is repeated every year as the two families become more and more deeply intertwined. Even Maryam is drawn in – up to a point. When she finds herself being courted by Bitsy Donaldson’s recently widowed father, all the values she cherishes – her traditions, her privacy, her otherness–are suddenly threatened.

A luminous novel brimming with subtle, funny, and tender observations that immerse us in the challenges of both sides of the American story.