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In this viscerally powerful memoir, Nguyen pens a nostalgic, candid account of growing up as a Vietnamese girl in the Midwest in the 1980s, and using ...Show synopsisIn this viscerally powerful memoir, Nguyen pens a nostalgic, candid account of growing up as a Vietnamese girl in the Midwest in the 1980s, and using popular American food--from Pringles potato chips to Toll House cookies--as a way to fit in and become a RrealS American.Hide synopsis
Description:New. Viking Books Hardcover 2007 2G A vivid, funny, and...New. Viking Books Hardcover 2007 2G A vivid, funny, and viscerally powerful memoir about childhood, assimilation, food, and growing up in the 1980s As a Vietnamese girl coming of age in Grand Rapids, Michigan, Bich Nguyen is filled with a rapacious hunger for American identity. In the pre-PC era Midwest, where the devoutly Christian blond-haired, blue-eyed Jennifers and Tiffanys reign supreme, Nguyen s barely conscious desire to belong transmutes into a passion for American food. More exotic seeming than her Buddhist grandmother s traditional specialties spring rolls, delicate pancakes stuffed with meats, fried shrimp cakes the campy, preservative-filled delicacies of mainstream America capture her imagination. And in this remarkable book, the glossy branded allure of such American foods as Pringles, Kit Kats, and Toll House cookies become an ingenious metaphor for her struggle to fit in, to become a real American. Beginning with Nguyen s family s harrowing migration from Saigon in 1975, Stealing Buddha s Dinner is nostalgic and candid, deeply satisfying and minutely observed, and stands as a unique vision of the immigrant experience and a lyrical ode to how identity is often shaped by the things we long for.
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I read Bich Ming Nguyen's short story in Scribner's Best of the Fiction Workshops 1999, and LOVED IT! When I saw she had come out with a book, I bought it immediately, This book reads very quickly--I read it in one day--and is a beautiful reflection on growing up as an "outsider" in America. Her ...
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