5/27/2023 0 Comments Anne tyler digging to americaThe inoffensive style and milquetoast plot (non-hostile pushes towards assimilation and pushback on the premise that traditions are important, oh my!) dance around characters that are human, but in the most uninteresting way possible. We see the children grow up, but mostly engages their families interacting and occasionally battling each other over their cultural differences (one is of Iranian heritage, the other white bread American). I’ve since lost the sheet that had the total information on it, but I seized this book in order to try and get to know the person who recommended it, to try and built a bridge between our vastly different literary hunting grounds.Īnd so I started Digging to America, a story about two adopted foreign babies and the story of the drastically different families that raise them. This was a book that was on my partner’s all-time favorites. With a monument forged of papers, management then set about pairing us together and tasked us with recommending books to the other person as an exercise in reader advisory (I work in a library). There were ‘whys’ and titled examples of what drove us to keep reading and what simply drove us crazy. Digging to America by Anne Tyler – Available HereĪt my work we were given the task of filling out a sheet of paper about the books we liked and the ones we didn’t.
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