| Digging to America Contributor(s): Tyler, Anne (Author) |
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ISBN: 034549234X ISBN-13: 9780345492340 Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group OUR PRICE: $20.90 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2007 Annotation: In her richest, most deeply searching novel yet, Tyler pens a story about what it is to be an American, and about Iranian-born Maryam Yazdan, who, after 35 years in this country, must finally come to terms with her outsiderness. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Family Life - General - Fiction | Psychological |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Lexile Measure: 840 |
| Physical Information: 0.65" H x 5.2" W x 8.1" (0.51 lbs) 288 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Mid-Atlantic - Ethnic Orientation - Arabic - Geographic Orientation - Maryland - Locality - Baltimore, Maryland - Sex & Gender - Feminine - Topical - Friendship |
| Accelerated Reader Info |
| Quiz #: 107849 Reading Level: 5.8 Interest Level: Upper Grades Point Value: 13.0 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: New York Times Bestseller An intimate picture of middle-class family life (The New York Times) that 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. |