{"product_id":"pioneer-girl-paperback","title":"Pioneer Girl - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"A powerful and wholly original American saga.\" --\u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBich Minh Nguyen's previous books--the acclaimed memoir \u003ci\u003eStealing Buddha's Dinner \u003c\/i\u003eand the American Book Award-winning novel \u003ci\u003eShort Girls\u003c\/i\u003e--established her talents as a writer of keen cultural observation. In \u003ci\u003ePioneer Girl\u003c\/i\u003e, Nguyen entwines the Asian American experience with the escapist pleasures of literature, in a dazzling mystery about the origins of Laura Ingalls Wilder's classic \u003ci\u003eLittle House on the Prairie\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLee Lien has long dodged her Vietnamese family's rigid expectations by immersing herself in books. But now, jobless with a PhD in literature, she is back at home, working in her family's restaurant under her mother's hypercritical gaze--until an heirloom from their past sends Lee on a search for clues that may lead back to Wilder herself, transforming strangers' lives as well as her own.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51369146286303,"sku":"9780143126225","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/1V5UnbpKnO9780143126225.webp?v=1789139240","url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/products\/pioneer-girl-paperback","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}