Digging to America

Resumen del libro

Friday August 15th, 1997. The night the girls arrived. Two tiny Korean babies are delivered to Baltimore to two families who have no more in common than this. First there are the Donaldsons, decent Brad and homespun, tenacious Bitsy (with her more organic than thou' airs, who believes fervently that life can always be improved), two full sets of grandparents and a host of big-boned, confident relatives, taking delivery with characteristic American razzmatazz. Then there are the Yazdans, pretty, nervous Ziba (her family only one generation removed from the bazaar') and carefully assimilated Sami, with his elegant, elusive Iranian-born widowed mother Maryam, the grandmother-to-be, receiving their little bundle with wondering discretion.

Every year, on the anniversary of Arrival Day' their two extended families celebrate together, with more and more elaborately competitive parties, as tiny, delicate Susan, wholesome, stocky Jin-ho and, later, her new little sister Xiu-Mei, take roots, become American While Maryam, the optimistic pessimist, confident that if things go wrong as well they may she will manage as she has before, contrarily preserves her outsider' status, as if to prove that, despite her passport, she is only a guest in this bewildering country.

Full of achingly hilarious moments (Xiu-Mei's pacifier' party is worthy of The Simpsons') and toe-curling misunderstandings, Digging to America is a novel with a deceptively small domestic canvas, and subtly large themes it's about belonging and otherness, about insiders and outsiders, pride and prejudice, young love and unexpected old love, families and the impossibility of ever getting it right, about striving for connection and goodness against all the odds And the end catches you by the throat, ambushes your emotions when you least expect it, as only Tyler can.

Biografía del autor

x{0026}lt;P x{0026}lt;B Anne Tylerx{0026}lt;/B , nacida en Minneapolis en 1941, es autora de numerosas novelas, entre la que destacan x{0026}lt;I Buscando a Calebx{0026}lt;/I (1975), x{0026}lt;I El tránsito de Morganx{0026}lt;/I (1980), x{0026}lt;I Reunión en el restaurante Nostalgiax{0026}lt;/I (PEN/Faulkner Award 1983, publicada por Lumen en 2012), x{0026}lt;I Ejercicios respiratoriosx{0026}lt;/I (Premio Pulitzer 1989), x{0026}lt;I El turista accidental x{0026}lt;/I (National Book Critics Circle Award 1986, que fue llevada a la gran pantalla), x{0026}lt;I Cuando éramos mayores x{0026}lt;/I (2001), x{0026}lt;I El matrimonio amateurx{0026}lt;/I (elegida por x{0026}lt;I The New York Times x{0026}lt;/I como uno de los libros más destacados de 2004), x{0026}lt;I Propios y extrañosx{0026}lt;/I (2006), x{0026}lt;I La brújula de Noé x{0026}lt;/I (2007), x{0026}lt;I El hombre que dijo adiós x{0026}lt;/I (Lumen, 2013), x{0026}lt;I El hilo azulx{0026}lt;/I (Lumen, 2016, elegida como mejor novela del mes por Amazon), x{0026}lt;I Corazón de vinagrex{0026}lt;/I (Lumen, 2017), x{0026}lt;I El baile del reloj x{0026}lt;/I (Lumen, 2019), x{0026}lt;I Una sala llena de corazones rotos x{0026}lt;/I (Lumen, 2021), y x{0026}lt;I Historia de una trenza x{0026}lt;/I (Lumen, 2022) y x{0026}lt;I Tres días de junio x{0026}lt;/I (Lumen, 2025). Es miembro de la American Academy of Art and Letters. Actualmente vive con su familia en Baltimore, donde están ambientadas casi todas sus obras.x{0026}lt;/P