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Stealing Buddha's dinner : a memoir / Bich Minh Nguyen. by Nguyen, Bich Minh. Penguin Books, 2007. Call #: 977.456 N576s Subjects Nguyen, Bich Minh.   Nguyen, Bich Minh -- Childhood and youth.   Novelists, American -- 21st century -- Biography.   Immigrants -- Michigan -- Biography.   Vietnamese Americans -- Michigan -- Biography.   Identity (Psychology) -- Biography.   Grand Rapids (Mich.) -- Biography. ISBN:  9780143113034 (pbk.) 0143113038 (pbk.) Description:  256 p. : ill. ; 20 cm. Notes:  "Beginning with her family's harrowing migration out of Saigon in 1975, this book follows Bich Nguyen as she comes of age in the pre-PC-era Midwest. Filled with a rapacious hunger for American identity, Nguyen's desire to belong transmutes into a passion for American food. This book is a unique vision of the immigrant experience and a lyrical ode to how identity is often shaped by the things we long for."--Back cover. Summary:  "Beginning with her family's harrowing migration out of Saigon in 1975, Stealing Buddha's Dinner follows Bich Nguyen as she comes of age in the pre-PC-era Midwest. Filled with a rapacious hunger for American identity, Nguyen's desire to belong transmutes into a passion for American food-Pringles, Kit Kats, and Toll House cookies. More exotic-seeming than her Buddhist grandmother's traditional specialties, the campy, preservative-filled "delicacies" of mainstream America become an ingenious metaphor for her struggle to become a "real" American. Stealing Buddha's Dinner is also a portrayal of a diverse family: Nguyen's hardworking, hard-partying father; pretty sister; wise and nurturing grandmother; and Rosa, her Latina stepmother. And there is the mystery of Nguyen's birth mother, unveiled movingly over the course of the book. Nostalgic and candid, Stealing Buddha's Dinner is a unique vision of the immigrant experience and a lyrical ode to how identity is often shaped by the things we long for."--From publisher. Genre:  Autobiographies. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information No Item Information

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