by Anne Tyler · Knopf · tapa dura · ISBN 9780307263940
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«Digging to America» is the novel by Anne Tyler, published by Knopf in hardcover (288 pages, in English).
The Donaldsons and the Yazdans meet at Baltimore airport while receiving their adopted daughters from Korea and end up celebrating an arrival party every year. Maryam Yazdan, an Iranian who has lived in the United States for 35 years, feels like a foreigner; when a widower from the Donaldsons courts her, her independence and traditions are threatened.
The novel was originally published on May 2, 2006; it was a finalist for the Orange Prize in 2007 and a candidate for the Dublin Literary Award in 2008.
For book clubs and readers of contemporary fiction interested in adoption, family, and immigration in the United States.
Anne Tyler is an American novelist, short story writer, and literary critic. She has published twenty-five novels, including Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant (1982), The Accidental Tourist (1985), and Breathing Lessons (1988). All three were finalists for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and Breathing Lessons won the prize in 1989. She has also won the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize, the Ambassador Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award. In 2012 she was awarded The Sunday Times Award for Literary Excellence. Tyler's twentieth novel, A Spool of Blue Thread, was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2015, and Redhead By the Side of the Road was longlisted for the same award in 2020.
