The present scenario in civilized society records an increasing number of people seeking divorce due to various reasons. 'Marriages are made in heaven' is a well known adage and the need to define how these marriages function rises from understanding marital bonds. Reviewing the novel Adam Mars-Jones says, These little girls give a new direction, hope and purpose to their parents and grand parents. Digging to America is about two families which depicts the events and experiences in the lives of two families namely the Donaldsons and the Yazdons who become friends at the Baltimore airport when they come to receive Korean babies for adoption. Buchanan Patrick suggests that “Multiculturalism was mainly intended as a formula for promoting the integration of immigrants into American society and for the enrichment and revitalization of American culture (Patrick 2006). Integration is the basis for a multicultural society in which the cultures influence one another. The term multiculturalism has diasporic career with numerous debates about the politics of cultural difference, the ‘limits of tolerance’ and the future of nation’s identity. Multiculturalism is a commonly used jargon just like feminism and postmodernism.
She focuses on the issues of cultural clashes, crisis in identity and what it means to belong and what makes someone an outsider. The present paper makes an attempt to critically analyze the aspect of multiculturalism in Tyler’s seventeenth novel Digging to America. Her eleventh novel Breathing Lessons received the Pulitzer Prize in 1989. Her tenth novel The Accidental Tourist was awarded The National Book Critics Circle Award in 1985. Tyler considers her ninth novel, The Dinner at Homesick Restaurant as her best work. She was married to an Iranian Psychiatrist and novelist late Taghi Mohammad Modarressi. She graduated at nineteen from Duke University and went on to do graduate work in Russian studies at Columbia University.
Tyler spent her childhood in Quaker communities. Anne Tyler was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 1941 and grew up in Raleigh, North Carolina.
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