Stealing Buddha's Dinner by Bich Minh Nguyen

Stealing Buddha's Dinner

Bich Minh Nguyen

missing duration info Add in missing duration information first pub 2007 (editions)

nonfiction biography memoir informative reflective slow-paced

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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 tran...

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Moods

reflective 88%
emotional 70%
funny 41%
informative 35%
hopeful 29%
inspiring 29%
sad 23%
challenging 11%
dark 11%
lighthearted 11%
tense 5%

Pace

medium 58%
slow 35%
fast 5%

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3.57

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