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Stealing Buddha's Dinner

Stealing Buddha's Dinner

Nguyen, Bich Minh

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Publisher Price: $18.00

ISBN10: 0143113038
ISBN13: 9780143113034
Publisher: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr
Published: Feb 1 2008
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.40
Height: 0.47 Width: 5.56 Depth: 7.06
Language: English
Winner of the PEN/Jerard Award
Chicago Tribune Best Book of the Year
Kiriyama Notable Book

[A] perfectly pitched and prodigiously detailed memoir. - Boston Globe

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 Stealing Buddha's Dinner, 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, a distinction that brings with it the dream of the perfect school lunch, burgers and Jell- O for dinner, and a visit from the Kool-Aid man. Vivid and viscerally powerful, this remarkable memoir about growing up in the 1980s introduces an original new literary voice and an entirely new spin on the classic assimilation story.

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