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Digging to America
by Anne Tyler
from Knopf

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0

• slice of life
  I found "Digging To America" to be a little on the "c'mon let's get it moving" side, but being an Anne Tyler fan I know her stories in the end leave you wishing there was more. This one seemed to get better in the last 50-60 pages as I wasn't sure how things would turn out between all the characters.
  I've enjoyed her other works more (The Accidental Tourist, The Amatuer Marriage, Ladder of Years), but still another great slice of life carved out by a true literary genious.

• wonderful audio version
  Blair Brown, the reader for "Digging to America," does a superb job, sounding by turn Iranian, Baltimorean, and all the accents in between. Meanwhile Anne Tyler's delicately nuanced characters all find their ways into the reader's/listener's heart. I especially appreciate Tyler's depiction of the older people in this novel as they cope with the confusing and often surprising features of widow-/widower-hood. How does she know all about that? But as one who's been there, I can attest to her having got it just... more info

• Well I liked it.
  Two very different American families adopt infants from Korea. The story would have ended there but for one of the mothers (in a commentary on what is perceived as a typical American Liberal empty headed and easily swayed by fad ideas) comes up with an idea wouldn't it be cool if these two girls were to hang out with each other I mean their both...Korean.
  The other family the Yazdans is composed of mostly first generation Iranian immigrants have Americanized done their best to fit but still have... more info

• Disappointing
  I was hoping to find a book about finding American culture as foreigners. This book is one very American person's pipedream of what becoming American should be. The author admits in the "Reader's Guide" (back) that she "relied on idle daydreams rather than research or personal experience." As such, the book is terribly one-sided and I was disappointed with the superficial and sometimes inaccurate portrayal of the first and second generation immigrants. In a time when immigration is becoming such a hot... more info

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