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Anne Tyler being an exception in postmodern American literature has published twenty well received novels and other works for a quarter of a century. She has been largely overlooked by the scholarly community. The productivity of these novels possess various themes dealing with the present society and culture. Among her novels Digging to America mainly deals with intercultural adoption and reveals about cultures and other relationships. The novel focusses on two different extending families, one the Iranian immigrants ‘Yazdans’ and the other Donaldson-Dickinson who are Native Americans. The two families are brought together unexpectedly through their adoption of babies from Korea received at Baltimore Washington Airport. At the same place there begins a bond between two different cultures of these two families that is the core of the novel. With the gentle comicality, Tyler draws out the ironies and intricacies of the character’s relationships with their own, as well as the complexities between two different cultures. The varying cultural traits sometimes tend to feel the characters questing for the identity. All the time in the novel the Yazdans family feels themselves as foreigners. In the novel mainly the belongingness is the subject of concern not only of the family but of being American too, whether an immigrant can ever feel at home or a foreigner, whether identity is a matter of will or choice or inherited culture and history. The present paper will highlight all the problems and troubles faced in the novel by the immigrant family because of their different cultures.