Pioneer Girl: A Novel

?? powerful and wholly original American saga.????an Francisco Chronicle Bich Minh Nguyen?? previous books??he acclaimed memoir Stealing Buddha?? Dinner and the American Book Award??inning novel Short Girls??stablished her talents as a writer of keen cultural observation. In Pioneer Girl, Nguyen entwines the Asian American experience with the escapist pleasures of literature, in a dazzling mystery about the origins of Laura Ingalls Wilder?? classic Little House on the Prairie. Lee Lien has long dodged her Vietnamese family?? rigid expectations by immersing herself in books. But now, jobless with a PhD in literature, she is back at home, working in her family?? restaurant under her mother?? hypercritical gaze??ntil an heirloom from their past sends Lee on a search for clues that may lead back to Wilder herself, transforming strangers??lives as well as her own.

• | Author: Bich Minh Nguyen
• | Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
• | Publication Date: Jan 27, 2015
• | Number of Pages: 304 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 0143126229
• | ISBN-13: 9780143126225