Praise for Pioneer Girl:
“Elegant, sharp-eyed, and very funny, Pioneer Girl is ultimately about how one finds kinship—familial, cultural, literary—that transcends the usual lexicon about identity and belonging. Navigating Vietnamese ‘immigrant guilt’ and a stalled academic career, Lee Lien finds escape in trying to solve a literary mystery which leads her deep into her own heart and history. A wonderful read!”
—Cristina García, author of King of Cuba and Dreaming in Cuban
“I love how the Little House legend takes a wild detour into contemporary life in Pioneer Girl. Bich Minh Nguyen’s wonderfully imagined literary history gets to the truth about mothers, daughters, frontiers, and the meaning of home. I couldn't put this down!”
—Wendy McClure, author of The Wilder Life
Two writers capture the legacy of Laura Ingalls Wilder in works of memoir and fiction.
True story: When I was a child, I wanted desperately to live on the banks of Plum Creek*. I’m not the only American kid who wanted the Little House life; Roxane Gay felt similarly, she told me in a recent interview for The B&N Podcast. We all raced to read Pioneer Girl by Bich Minh […]