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Stealing Buddha's Dinner
Stealing Buddha's Dinner
Author: Bich Minh Nguyen
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 e...  more »
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ISBN-13: 9781423391098
ISBN-10: 1423391098
Publication Date: 3/1/2009
Edition: Library
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Publisher: Brilliance Audio on CD Unabridged Lib Ed
Book Type: Audio CD
Other Versions: Hardcover
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I enjoyed this book - based on a young girls journey from Vietnam after the fall of Saigon to the US. Interesting take on how they viewed "fitting in" by the foods they were allowed to eat. Things we take for granted - clothing styles, etc., that they strived to attain. Given the time frame of their immigration to the US, they faced a good deal of discrimination. Beginning was very good, bogged down a little half way through.
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