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Stealing Buddha's Dinner
Stealing Buddha's Dinner
Author: Bich Minh Nguyen
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 Ti...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780670038329
ISBN-10: 0670038326
Publication Date: 2/1/2007
Pages: 272
Rating:
  • Currently 3.6/5 Stars.
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3.6 stars, based on 14 ratings
Publisher: Viking Adult
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Audio CD
Members Wishing: 0
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I enjoyed this book - based on a young girls journey from Vietnam after the fall of Saigon to the US. Interesting take on how they viewed "fitting in" by the foods they were allowed to eat. Things we take for granted - clothing styles, etc., that they strived to attain. Given the time frame of their immigration to the US, they faced a good deal of discrimination. Beginning was very good, bogged down a little half way through.
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