Pioneer Girl
A Novel
by Bich Minh Nguyen
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Pub Date Jan 27 2015 | Archive Date Feb 27 2015
PENGUIN GROUP Penguin | Penguin Books
Description
Bich 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 classic Little House on the Prairie.
Lee Lien has long dodged her Vietnamese family’s rigid expectations by immersing herself in books. But now, jobless with a PhD in literature, she is back at home, working in her family’s restaurant under her mother’s hypercritical gaze—until an heirloom from their past sends Lee on a search for clues that may lead back to Wilder herself, transforming strangers’ lives as well as her own.
Advance Praise
“. . . [A] surprising synthesis of the personal and the public, the intimate and the epic, the historical and the fictional. Nguyen takes two disparate strands of our national mythology and weaves them into a powerful and wholly original American saga.”
—San Francisco Chronicle
“You’ll fly through this witty mystery novel . . .The story weaves together family lore and . . . crazy Laura Ingalls Wilder connections.”
—Glamour
“As Bich Minh Nguyen suggests in . . . Pioneer Girl . . . families can seem awfully consistent in wildly different times, places, and cultural backgrounds.”
—Chicago Tribune
“Bich Minh Nguyen’s Pioneer Girl is a powerful, intimate novel that honors the legacy of one of the country’s most beloved children's writers while speaking to the alienation and conflicts that mark the generational and cultural divide of Asian American families. It is a touching story about mothers and daughters overcoming emotional and physical frontiers.”
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| EDITION | Other Format |
| ISBN | 9780143126225 |
| PRICE | $23.00 (USD) |
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