Marin's review
Digging to America
by Anne Tyler
Marin's review
Digging to America by Anne Tyler
Marin's review
rating:
If I were a novelist, I would be so jealous of Anne Tyler's ability to create characters. Her best-developed ones are the introverted thinky ones, but she can also lovingly and sympathetically introduce emotive talky ones. I love to watch Tyler throw these types together and see what they do.
The novel centers on two families who adopt Korean babies on the same day. The families adopt different, but equally loving, parenting styles for their daughters. I loved the way Tyler portrayed the new parents' experiences with their children, especially her insights into the lack of self-confidence and constantly present comparisons that accompany new parenthood.
My only complaint with this otherwise charming novel is that it seems to me that Tyler was trying to tackel a topic that was too complicated for such as small book: What makes Americans American? She gave lots of insight to the topic, but I didn't feel very satisfied. I think the question was too ambitious for the story. Is...more
The novel centers on two families who adopt Korean babies on the same day. The families adopt different, but equally loving, parenting styles for their daughters. I loved the way Tyler portrayed the new parents' experiences with their children, especially her insights into the lack of self-confidence and constantly present comparisons that accompany new parenthood.
My only complaint with this otherwise charming novel is that it seems to me that Tyler was trying to tackel a topic that was too complicated for such as small book: What makes Americans American? She gave lots of insight to the topic, but I didn't feel very satisfied. I think the question was too ambitious for the story. Is...more
