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Van and Linny Luong are as baffling to each other as their parents Vietnamese legacy is to them both. Van, the quintessential overachiever, has applied the same studied diligence to her law career and to her marriage a beautiful idea that vaporized when Mr. Right walked out. Linny pretty, fashionable, untethered is grasping for purpose when her affair with a married man takes a humiliating turn. Each is the last person her sister would call, b...

This anthology brings together 50 diverse works of contemporary creative nonfiction, from memoirs to personal essays to literary journalism, along with 15 craft essays.

A powerful and wholly original American saga.” —San Francisco ChronicleBich Minh Nguyen's previous books—the acclaimed memoir Stealing Buddha's Dinner and the American Book Award-winning novel Short Girls—established her talents as a writer of keen cultural observation. In Pioneer Girl, Nguyen entwines the Asian American experience with the escapist pleasures of literature, in a dazzling mystery about the origins of Laura Ingalls Wilder's clas...

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As a Vietnamese girl coming of age in Grand Rapids, Michigan, Nguyen is filled with a rapacious hunger for American identity, and in the pre-PC-era Midwest (where the Jennifers and Tiffanys reign supreme), the desire to belong transmutes into a passion for American food. More exotic- seeming than her Buddhist grandmother's traditional specialties, the campy, preservative-filled "delicacies" of mainstream America capture her imagination. In Ste...

As a Vietnamese girl coming of age in Grand Rapids, Michigan, Nguyen is filled with a rapacious hunger for American identity. The glossy branded allure of Pringles, Kit Kats, and Toll House Cookies becomes an ingenious metaphor for Nguyen's struggle to become a real American.

As a Vietnamese girl coming of age in Grand Rapids, Michigan, Nguyen is filled with a rapacious hunger for American identity. The glossy branded allure of Pringles, Kit Kats, and Toll House Cookies becomes an ingenious metaphor for Nguyen's struggle to become a real American.

Linny and Van are both a oeshort girlsa but that is where the resemblance ends. Linny, the younger sister, is pretty, popular, and fashionable. Van is a plain and socially awkward overachiever who becomes an immigration lawyer. The sisters have been locked in a relationship of mutual disdain for as long as they can remember but when their father, an eccentric, amusing, and slightly tragic inventor of the a oeLuoung Arm, a a gadget to help shor...

The authentic and compassionate first novel about two sisters from the author of the acclaimed memoir Stealing Buddha's Dinner Called "A writer to watch, a tremendous talent" by the Chicago Tribune, Bich Minh Nguyen makes her fiction debut with the deeply moving and entertaining story of two Vietnamese sisters. Aside from their petite stature, Van and Linny Luong couldn't be more different. Diligent, unassuming Van works as an immigration lawy...