![]() There's comedy in the way unorthodox arrangements reproduce the flaws of the standard model. ![]() Ziba and Sami Yazdan immediately Americanise their daughter's name from Sooki to Susan, while the Donaldsons continue to call theirs Jin-Ho and to dress her in Korean clothes.įor the Iranians, American identity isn't something to be taken for granted - it takes work. The two families keep in touch, thanks to the warm interferingness of Bitsy Donaldson, though their approaches to non-biological parenthood differ from the start. International adoption is already rich territory, representing baby hunger at its most extreme (or human trafficking at its most benign, if you prefer), but then the point of view slides past the Donaldsons and rests on the Yazdans, a family of Iranian descent who are expecting their own orphan, with much less fanfare. The Donaldsons, a large family armed with video cameras and tape recorders, are awaiting the arrival of a Korean baby girl. ![]() Digging to America starts at Baltimore airport in August 1997. ![]()
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