Digging to America

Digging to America

Rating:  Digging to America, by Anne Tyler. Ballantine Books (2007), 288 pages. Two families arrive at the Baltimore airport, each to meet their newly adopted infants from Korea. One boisterous family has come with friends, balloons, video cameras,...
The Snakehead

The Snakehead

Rating:  The Snakehead:  An Epic Tale of the Chinatown Underworld and the American Dream, by Patrick Radden Keefe.  Doubleday (2009), 414 pages. In June of 1993, in the middle of the night, a ship ran aground a few hundred yards off the Rockaway Peninsula in...
Finding Mañana

Finding Mañana

Rating:  Finding Mañana: A Memoir of a Cuban Exodus, by Mirta Ojito.  Penguin (2006), 302 pages. There was so, so much I didn’t know about Cuba. Considering that the country is only ninety miles away and intricately tied in many historically significant ways...