Stealing Buddha's Dinner by Bich Minh Nguyen

Stealing Buddha's Dinner

Bich Minh Nguyen

256 pages first pub 2007 (editions)

nonfiction biography memoir informative reflective slow-paced

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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 pa...

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Moods

reflective 87%
emotional 68%
funny 43%
informative 37%
inspiring 31%
hopeful 25%
sad 18%
challenging 12%
dark 12%
lighthearted 12%
tense 6%

Pace

medium 62%
slow 31%
fast 6%

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