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Digging to America
June's book club selection
is Digging to America by Anne Tyler. Pick up
a copy at the library or book store and join us to discuss it on
Friday, June 27 (location to
be announced). The New Yorker says, "Tyler is our
consummate chronicler of the bewilderments of family life.
In her seventeenth novel, an improbable friendship develops
between two couples who meet by chance at an airport where they
are picking up babies they have adopted from Korea. The
Yazdans, an almost entirely assimilated Iranian-American couple,
immediately change their daughter's name to Susan; the
politically correct Donaldsons insist on calling their baby
Jin-Ho and dressing her in Korean clothes. There are many
opportunities for the sort of rueful comedy at which Tyler
excels, but she also explores the permutations of estrangement
available to those whose identity depends on calling elsewhere
home, and delineates, with offhand grace, how subtly our own set
of family customs defines us. Tyler herself married into
an Iranian family, and her depictions of humid afternoons of
loquacious relatives and endless food are wryly affectionate."
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