![]() ![]() Though they immediately recognize that they are very different from each other, they propose to meet at least once a year to celebrate the arrival of their daughters in America. The novel begins when the Yazdans meet the Dickinson-Donaldsons at the Baltimore airport. ![]() The families’ adoptions become their initial point of contact, but they connect through the years as they communicate their different backgrounds, beliefs, and ways of raising their children. The first couple, Ziba and Sami Yazdan, are immigrants from Iran the second, Bitsy and Brad Dickinson-Donaldson, are white descendants of European colonists. Both families happen to adopt children from Korea and meet at the airport on their first day back in the country. A story about the construction of American identity, it follows two families that come from very different backgrounds and converge in Baltimore, Maryland. Digging to America is a 2006 novel by American author Anne Tyler. ![]()
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