DIGGING TO AMERICA by Anne Tyler
ISBN: 0307263940
Format: Hardcover, 288pp
Pub. Date: May 2006
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
Anne Tyler has the ability to turn every day life into gorgeous, seamless prose. In her 17th novel, she brings her readers into the world of two families who are brought together by the adoption of two little girls from Korea. The novel explores what happens when cultures collide.
DIGGING TO AMERICA is Maryam Yazdan’s story, what she experiences when her ordinary life is pushed into unknown territory. She begins to discover sides of herself she never knew existed along with learning about what others can teach her if she allows herself to be open. Tyler explores the complexity of family traditions, religions, passions and truth. It is in her elegant descriptions of life that readers know they are reading one of the greatest writers of all time.
