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Stealing Buddha's Dinner by Bich Minh Nguyen (2007)
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Format
- Hardcover
- Publication Year
- 2007
- Subject
- Biography & Autobiography
- Language
- English
- Book Title
- Stealing Buddha's Dinner
- Item Length
- 8.5in
- Publisher
- Penguin Publishing Group
- Item Height
- 1.1in
- Genre
- Biography & Autobiography, Social Science
- Topic
- Ethnic Studies / Asian American Studies, Personal Memoirs, General
- Item Width
- 5.9in
- Item Weight
- 13.3 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 272 Pages
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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 Dinneris 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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Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0670038326
ISBN-13
9780670038329
eBay Product ID (ePID)
57155860
Product Key Features
Book Title
Stealing Buddha's Dinner
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Ethnic Studies / Asian American Studies, Personal Memoirs, General
Publication Year
2007
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, Social Science
Number of Pages
272 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.5in
Item Height
1.1in
Item Width
5.9in
Item Weight
13.3 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Ct275.N523a3 2007
Grade from
Twelfth Grade
Copyright Date
2007
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
2006-047219
Dewey Decimal
977.4/5600495922092
Dewey Edition
22
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