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Stealing Buddha's Dinner: A Memoir Paperback - 2008
by Nguyen, Bich Minh
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In this viscerally powerful memoir, Nguyen pens a nostalgic, candid account of growing up as a Vietnamese girl in the Midwest in the 1980s, and using popular American food--from Pringles potato chips to Toll House cookies--as a way to fit in and become a real American.
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- Title Stealing Buddha's Dinner: A Memoir
- Author Nguyen, Bich Minh
- Binding Paperback
- Edition [ Edition: First
- Condition Used - Acceptable
- Pages 272
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Books, New York, NY
- Date 2008-01-29
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Illustrated, Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents
- Bookseller's Inventory # mon0000133688
- ISBN 9780143113034 / 0143113038
- Weight 0.4 lbs (0.18 kg)
- Dimensions 7.06 x 5.56 x 0.47 in (17.93 x 14.12 x 1.19 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 1950-1999
- Cultural Region: Southeast Asian
- Sex & Gender: Feminine
- Library of Congress subjects Grand Rapids (Mich.), Nguyen, Bich Minh
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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Summary
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.
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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- New York Times Book Review, 03/02/2008, Page 28