![]() All they have in common is that they both adopted babies from Korea at the same time, welcoming them on the same flight at Baltimore airport one hot August evening in 1997. In Digging to America, Tyler charts the course of two mismatched families, the hale and hearty Donaldsons and the more reticent Iranian-American Yazdans. She introduces you to fairly ordinary characters in fairly ordinary situations, and somehow she makes you care about their parties and arguments, their small desires and fragile relationships. ![]() ![]() This book was the perfect companion for a long drive like that one. ![]() I listened to the audiobook version of Digging to America by Anne Tyler as I was driving for six hours across Serbia, from the Bosnian border to the Bulgarian one, trying to escape from the tacky construction site of Zlatibor and find peace in the Stari Planina mountains, the beginning of the Balkan range that stretches through Bulgaria towards the Black Sea and gives the peninsula its name. Some books are ideal for a long road trip. ![]() In Digging to America, Tyler charts the course of two mismatched families, the hale and hearty, all-American Donaldsons and the quieter, more reticent Iranian-American Yazdans. ![]()
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