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Hardcover. Etat : Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Fine. 1st Edition. 1st ed., 1st printing ; 256 pages ; 22 cm ; ISBN 9780670038329, 0670038326 OCLC 71237477 ; LCCN 2006047219 LC CT275.N523 A3 2007 Dewey 977.45600495922092 ; black cloth in color photographic dustjacket ; Contents: Pringles -- Forbidden Fruit -- Dairy Cone -- Fast Food Asian -- Toll House Cookies -- School Lunch -- American Meat -- Green Sticky Rice Cakes -- Down with Grapes -- Bread and Honey -- Salt Pork -- Holiday Tamales -- Stealing Buddha's Dinner -- Ponderosa -- Mooncakes -- Cha Gio ; A coming-of-age memoir by a Vietnamese American recounts her struggles for an American identity in the pre-politically correct climate of the Midwest and her passion for American food in the face of her family's Buddhist lifestyle ; 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 the devoutly Christian blond-haired, blue-eyed Jennifers and Tiffanys reign supreme, Nguyens barely conscious desire to belong transmutes into a passion for American food. More exotic seeming than her Buddhist grandmothers traditional specialties spring rolls, delicate pancakes stuffed with meats, fried shrimp cakes, the campy, preservative-filled delicacies of mainstream America capture her imagination. And in this remarkable book, the glossy branded allure of such American foods as Pringles, Kit Kats, and Toll House cookies become an ingenious metaphor for her struggle to fit in, to become a real merican. Beginning with Nguyen's family's harrowing migration from Saigon in 1975, Stealing Buddha's Dinner is nostalgic and candid, deeply satisfying and minutely observed, and stands as a unique vision of the immigrant experience and a lyrical ode to how identity is often shaped by the things we long for. ; Bich Minh Nguyen (pronounced /Bit Min New-win/) teaches creative writing at Purdue University. Stealing Buddha's Dinner is her first book. ; FINE/FINE. Book.