The Resource Digging to America, by Anne Tyler, (text large print)
Digging to America, by Anne Tyler, (text large print)
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The item Digging to America, by Anne Tyler, (text large print) represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Williamsburg Regional Library.
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- Summary
- Two families awaiting the arrival of their adopted infant daughters from Korea meet at the airport. The families lives become interwined after the Donaldsons, a young American couple invite the Yazdan's, Maryam, her son and his Iranian American wife to an arrival party, which becomes an annual event. Maryam, who came to this country thirty-five years earlier, feels her values threatened when she is courted by a newly widowed Donaldson. A penetrating light on the American way as seen from two perspectives, those who are born here and those who are still struggling to fit in
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First large print edition.
- Extent
- 405 pages (large print)
- Isbn
- 9780739326428
- Label
- Digging to America
- Title
- Digging to America
- Statement of responsibility
- by Anne Tyler
- Subject
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- trueReunions
- trueGentle reads
- trueIdentity (Psychology)
- trueIndependence in women
- Intercountry adoption -- Fiction
- trueInterethnic families
- trueInterethnic friendship
- trueInterethnic relations
- trueInternational adoption
- trueInterracial adoption
- trueInterracial families
- Iranian American women -- Fiction
- Iranian Americans -- Fiction
- Large type books
- trueMainstream fiction
- Psychological fiction
- trueRace relations
- Widows -- Fiction
- Women immigrants -- Fiction
- trueAdult books for young adults
- trueAmericanization
- Assimilation (Sociology) -- Fiction
- Baltimore (Md.) -- Fiction
- trueBaltimore, Maryland
- trueBelonging
- trueCulture conflict
- Domestic fiction
- trueDomestic fiction
- trueFamily traditions
- Friendship -- Fiction
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Two families awaiting the arrival of their adopted infant daughters from Korea meet at the airport. The families lives become interwined after the Donaldsons, a young American couple invite the Yazdan's, Maryam, her son and his Iranian American wife to an arrival party, which becomes an annual event. Maryam, who came to this country thirty-five years earlier, feels her values threatened when she is courted by a newly widowed Donaldson. A penetrating light on the American way as seen from two perspectives, those who are born here and those who are still struggling to fit in
- Summary
- A chance encounter between two families--the Donaldsons, and the Iranian-born Yasdans--at the Baltimore airport, as both couples await the arrival of an adopted daughter from Korea, prompts an examination about what it means to be an American while the lives of the two families intertwine over the years
- Award
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- Booklist Editors' Choice, 2006.
- New York Times Notable Book, 2006
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- 142038
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Tyler, Anne
- Dewey number
- 813/.54
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- PS3570.Y45
- LC item number
- D47 2006b
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/lexile
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- 840
- 840
- Literary form
- fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/resourcePreferred
- True
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Assimilation (Sociology)
- Friendship
- Intercountry adoption
- Iranian American women
- Iranian Americans
- Widows
- Women immigrants
- Baltimore (Md.)
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- Digging to America, by Anne Tyler, (text large print)
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Edition
- First large print edition.
- Extent
- 405 pages (large print)
- Form of item
- large print
- Isbn
- 9780739326428
- Lccn
- 2006007101
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- Other control number
- 9780739326428
- Specific material designation
- large print
- System control number
- 64453437
- Label
- Digging to America, by Anne Tyler, (text large print)
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Edition
- First large print edition.
- Extent
- 405 pages (large print)
- Form of item
- large print
- Isbn
- 9780739326428
- Lccn
- 2006007101
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other control number
- 9780739326428
- Specific material designation
- large print
- System control number
- 64453437
Subject
- trueReunions
- trueGentle reads
- trueIdentity (Psychology)
- trueIndependence in women
- Intercountry adoption -- Fiction
- trueInterethnic families
- trueInterethnic friendship
- trueInterethnic relations
- trueInternational adoption
- trueInterracial adoption
- trueInterracial families
- Iranian American women -- Fiction
- Iranian Americans -- Fiction
- Large type books
- trueMainstream fiction
- Psychological fiction
- trueRace relations
- Widows -- Fiction
- Women immigrants -- Fiction
- trueAdult books for young adults
- trueAmericanization
- Assimilation (Sociology) -- Fiction
- Baltimore (Md.) -- Fiction
- trueBaltimore, Maryland
- trueBelonging
- trueCulture conflict
- Domestic fiction
- trueDomestic fiction
- trueFamily traditions
- Friendship -- Fiction
Genre
- Fiction
- trueGentle reads
- Large type books
- trueMainstream fiction
- truePsychological fiction
- trueAdult books for young adults
- trueDomestic fiction
Included in
- trueNew York Times Notable Books - Fiction and Poetry: 2006
- trueBooklist Editors' Choice - Best Fiction Books: 2006
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