{"id":1904,"date":"2007-05-01T14:16:55","date_gmt":"2007-05-01T18:16:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bookdragon.si.edu\/?p=1904"},"modified":"2015-08-17T10:53:58","modified_gmt":"2015-08-17T14:53:58","slug":"stealing-buddhas-dinner-a-memoir-by-bich-minh-nguyen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/stealing-buddhas-dinner-a-memoir-by-bich-minh-nguyen\/","title":{"rendered":"Stealing Buddha\u2019s Dinner: A Memoir by Bich Minh Nguyen [in Bloomsbury Review]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2007\/05\/Stealing-Buddhas-Dinner.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-26790\" src=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2007\/05\/Stealing-Buddhas-Dinner.jpg\" alt=\"Stealing Buddha's Dinner\" width=\"336\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a>Using food as an engaging trope to tell her poignant story \u2013 from Pringles to Big Macs to Bubble Yum and Little Debbies \u2013 Nguyen takes the reader on a vicarious munching session, recounting her experiences as a young Vietnamese transplant trying to find her way and fit into the Midwest landscape of Grand Rapids, Michigan.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Review<\/strong>: &#8220;In Celebration of Asian Pacific American Month: New &amp; Notable Books,&#8221; <em>The Bloomsbury Review<\/em>, May\/June 2007<\/p>\n<p><strong>Readers<\/strong>: Young Adult, Adult<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published<\/strong>: 2007<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/bookdragonreviews.wordpress.com\/files\/2009\/04\/stealing-buddhas-dinner.jpg\" alt=\"stealing-buddhas-dinner\" title=\"stealing-buddhas-dinner\" width=\"128\" height=\"191\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1905\" \/>Using food as an engaging trope to tell her poignant story \u2013 from Pringles to Big Macs to Bubble Yum and Little Debbies \u2013 Nguyen takes the reader on a vicarious munching session, recounting her experiences as a young Vietnamese transplant trying to find her way and fit into the Midwest landscape of Grand Rapids, Michigan.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Review<\/strong>: &#8220;In Celebration of Asian Pacific American Month: New &amp; Notable Books,&#8221; <em>The Bloomsbury Review<\/em>, May\/June 2007<\/p>\n<p><strong>Readers<\/strong>: Young Adult, Adult<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published<\/strong>: 2007<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26790,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,107,20,6535,137,140,31],"tags":[83,2639,1968,6608,58,10,135,25,3421],"class_list":["post-1904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-adult-readers","category-memoir","category-nonfiction","category-repost","category-southeast-asian-american","category-vietnamese-american","category-young-adult-readers","tag-assimilation","tag-bich-minh-nguyen","tag-bloomsbury-review","tag-bookdragon","tag-coming-of-age","tag-family","tag-grandparents","tag-immigration","tag-stealing-buddhas-dinner"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.14 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Stealing Buddha\u2019s Dinner: A Memoir by Bich Minh Nguyen [in Bloomsbury Review] - BookDragon<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/stealing-buddhas-dinner-a-memoir-by-bich-minh-nguyen\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Stealing Buddha\u2019s Dinner: A Memoir by Bich Minh Nguyen [in Bloomsbury Review] - BookDragon\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Using food as an engaging trope to tell her poignant story \u2013 from Pringles to Big Macs to Bubble Yum and Little Debbies \u2013 Nguyen takes the reader on a vicarious munching session, recounting her experiences as a young Vietnamese transplant trying to find her way and fit into the Midwest landscape of Grand Rapids, Michigan.  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