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 her Buddhist grandmother's
traditional specialties, the campy, preservative-filled
"delicacies" of mainstream America capture her imagination.
In "Stealing Buddha's Dinner," the glossy branded allure of
Pringles, Kit Kats, and Toll House Cookies becomes an ingenious
metaphor for Nguyen's struggle to become a "real" American, a
distinction that brings with it the dream of the perfect school
lunch, burgers and Jell- O for dinner, and a visit from the
Kool-Aid man. Vivid and viscerally powerful, this remarkable memoir
about growing up in the 1980s introduces an original new literary
voice and an entirely new spin on the classic assimilation story.
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