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Copy/paste the text below into your blog. <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/698.Digging_to_America?utm_medium=api&amp;utm_source=blog_review" style="float: left; padding-right: 20px"><img alt="Digging to America" border="0" src="http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1157224077m/698.jpg" /></a> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/698.Digging_to_America?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review">Digging to America</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/457.Anne_Tyler">Anne Tyler</a><br/><br/> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/24124436?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review"><h3>My review</h3></a> rating: 4 of 5 stars<br/>This author’s name has come up a few times at Reading Seals, and I was feeling the need to branch out after having limited myself (pretty much) to University Required Reading, and books from my Waitshelf, since the end of February. That’s a long time not to have a bunch of library books on the go. I think I was suffering depletion. <br/> <br/>No longer! I read 2 books on the aeroplanes that took me from Auckland to Wellington, Wellington to Dunedin (same plane, but we had to disembark and then re-board just 10 minutes later), and then from Invercargill to Christchurch and finally from Christchurch back home to Auckland. As you’re no longer allowed to take anything remotely resembling dangerous on the planes, I couldn’t do my crochet (I’ve just started making ♬ “Ten Green Bottles Hanging on the Wall” for Jimmy), so it had to be reading (yeah, I know – a BIG sacrifice – lol (as my daughter would say)). <br/> <br/>This book is delightful. There are some funny, funny parts – the little girl and her pacifiers – and some sweetly sad, and the different voices of the very different people all came across as true. That’s so well done. <br/> <br/>Very briefly (because tons of other people have written about this book) – 2 childless couples have adopted Korean orphans, and they meet by chance at the airport when the two little girls arrive on the same plane. One couple is American born and bred, and typical of how any foreigner thinks of Americans; and the other is Iranian. The American wife decides the two little girls need to get to know each other, and that it’d be good for the two families to ‘compare notes’ and so on. And so their friendship, and the relationship between the extended families, begins. The character we get to know the most is Maryam, the Iranian man’s mother. She emigrated to the U.S. when she married, and she has never felt she belongs. <br/><br/><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/list/716890?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review">View all my reviews.</a>