Digging to America
- Author Anne Tyler
- Narrator Blair Brown
- Publisher Random House
- Run Time 8 hours and 32 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Contemporary lifestyle fiction, Family life fiction, Humorous fiction, Modern and contemporary fiction, Narrative theme: Social issues.
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What to expect
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Friday August 15th, 1997. Two tiny Korean babies are delivered to Baltimore to two families who have no more in common than this. Every year, on the anniversary of 'Arrival Day' their two extended families celebrate together, with more and more elaborately competitive parties, as little Susan and Jin-ho take roots and become American.
Full of achingly hilarious moments and toe-curling misunderstandings, Digging to America is a novel about belonging and otherness, pride and prejudice, young love and unexpected old love, families and the impossibility of ever getting it right...
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Critics Review
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Magnificent
Observer -
Deliciously funny and sharply observed
Guardian -
Wise and funny…a multidimensional exploration of what it means to belong, not only to a family but also to a nation
Sunday Times -
Out of this everyday material she spins gold: stories so achingly truthful, so achingly funny, so sad and so real that you can only marvel
Daily Mail -
Anne Tyler draws a comedy that is not so much brilliant as luminous – its observant sharpness sweetened by a generous understanding of human fallibility
Sunday Telegraph
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