"Digging to America" by Anne Tyler

Anne Tyler once again delivers her trademark domestic fiction in the novel "Digging to America." She examines the lives of two very different families-- the Donaldson's and Yazdun's-- as they arrive at the Baltimore airport to pick up their adoped baby girls from South Korea. What follows is a wonderful examination of their daily lives, told by various family members, over the years as the adopted girls and families grow closer together. The classic themes of immigration, marriage, family, love, and loss are so well described by Anne Tyler that she makes these themes universal to all. She is a master of the well-written phrase and the well-developed character and her unique "miracles of insight and understanding," make this a novel which is highly recommended.