Monday, July 27, 2009

Stealing Buddha's Dinner by Bich Minh Nguyen

Recommended by JoAnn
977.456 NGU

A Vietnamese immigrant who left Saigon in 1975 to settle in Michigan wrote this memoir "as an homage to childhood, suburbia, and all the bad food, fashion, music and hair of the deep 1980s. It is also about an immigrant's dilemma to blend in or remain apart." She longs to be a "real" American and craves the junk food of that time to fit in. This vibrant view of one immigrant's experience is worth reading.

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