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
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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 89%
emotional 63%
funny 36%
informative 31%
hopeful 26%
inspiring 26%
sad 21%
challenging 10%
dark 10%
lighthearted 10%
tense 5%

Pace

medium 60%
slow 35%
fast 5%

Average rating

3.57

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