Sisters Van and Linny are short. But they couldn't be more different. Van's the overachiever - a high-flying lawyer with a pristine home and husband, until the husband walks out. Linny is fashionable, flighty, works for a catering firm called You Did It Dinners and has just been told by her married [...]
As a Vietnamese girl coming of age in Grand Rapids, Michigan, Nguyen is filled with a rapacious hunger for American identity, and in the pre-PC-era Midwest (where the Jennifers and Tiffanys reign supreme), the desire to belong transmutes into a passion for American food. More exotic- seeming than he[...]
The authentic and compassionate first novel about two sisters from the author of the acclaimed memoir "Stealing Buddha's Dinner"
Called "A writer to watch, a tremendous talent" by the "Chicago Tribune," Bich Minh Nguyen makes her fiction debut with the deeply moving and entertaining story of tw[...]
From an award-winning author, a novel about a Vietnamese American family's ties to "The Little House on the Prairie"
Jobless with a PhD, Lee Lien returns home to her Chicago suburb from grad school, only to find herself contending with issues she's evaded since college. But when her brother dis[...]