Stealing Buddha's Dinner by Bich Minh Nguyen

Stealing Buddha's Dinner

Bich Minh Nguyen

272 pages first pub 2007 (editions)

nonfiction biography memoir informative reflective slow-paced

Description

A vivid, funny, and viscerally powerful memoir about childhood, assimilation, food, and growing up in the 1980s As a Vietnamese girl coming of age in Grand Rapids, Michigan, Bich Nguyen is filled with a rapacious hunger for American identity. In ...

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Moods

reflective 86%
emotional 73%
funny 40%
informative 33%
inspiring 26%
hopeful 20%
sad 20%
challenging 13%
dark 13%
lighthearted 13%
tense 6%

Pace

medium 66%
slow 26%
fast 6%

Average rating

3.57

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