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 Christi...
She spent much of the next eight years traveling—Paris, London, Vienna, Albania, Armenia—before returning to Rocky Ridge for what she thought would be a respite. Always big on resolutions and always obsessed with money, she’d set a goal of storing up at least $100,000 in savings. At the same time...