
Winner of the PEN/Jerard Award
Chicago Tribune Best Book of the Year
Kiriyama Notable Book [A] perfectly pitched and prodigiously detailed memoir. - Boston Globe As a Vietnamese girl coming of age in Grand Rapids, Michigan, Nguyen is filled with a rapacious...

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 the pre-PC era Midwest, where...




Winner of the PEN/Jerard Award " A] perfectly pitched and prodigiously detailed memoir."--Boston Globe As a Vietnamese girl coming of age in Grand Rapids, Michigan, Nguyen is filled with a...
Chicago Tribune Best Book of the Year
Kiriyama Notable Book

Winner of the PEN/Jerard Award " A] perfectly pitched and prodigiously detailed memoir."--Boston Globe As a Vietnamese girl coming of age in Grand Rapids, Michigan, Nguyen is filled with a...
Chicago Tribune Best Book of the Year
Kiriyama Notable Book