Digging to America

Description:

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.

subjects: Social life and customs,  Iranian American women,  Iranian Americans,  Women immigrants,  Fiction,  Assimilation (Sociology),  Iranierin,  Akkulturation,  Intercountry adoption,  Widows,  Friendship,  Adopted children,  Emigration and immigration,  Manners and customs,  Baltimore (md.), fiction,  United states, social life and customs, fiction,  Fiction, general,  Large type books,  Fiction, psychological,  Friendship, fiction,  Widows, fiction,  Novela psicológica,  Amistad,  Novela psicologia,  Materiales en español,  Mujeres inmigrantes,  Novela,  Psychological fiction,  University of South Alabama,  Adoption,  Fictional Works,  Domestic fiction,  New York Times reviewed,  Fiction, family life, general,  Famille,  Romans, nouvelles,  Assimilation (Sociologie),  Adoption internationale,  Immigrantes,  Amitie,  Veuves,  Américains d'origine iranienne,  Iranian American women -- Fiction,  Assimilation (Sociology) -- Fiction,  Intercountry adoption -- Fiction,  Women immigrants -- Fiction,  Friendship -- Fiction,  Widows -- Fiction,  Iranian Americans -- Fiction,  Adoption -- Fiction,  Américaines d'origine iranienne -- Romans, nouvelles, etc,  Assimilation (Sociologie) -- Romans, nouvelles, etc,  Adoption internationale -- Romans, nouvelles, etc,  Immigrantes -- Romans, nouvelles, etc,  Amitié -- Romans, nouvelles, etc,  Veuves -- Romans, nouvelles, etc,  Américains d'origine iranienne -- Romans, nouvelles, etc,  Novela psicología,  Novela de la vida familiar,  Baltimore (Md.) -- Fiction,  Maryland -- Baltimore

Places: Baltimore (Md.),  United States,  Maryland,  Baltimore,  USA