Bich Minh Nguyen’s wonderfully imagined literary history gets to the truth about mothers, daughters, frontiers, and the meaning of home. “I love how the Little House legend takes a wild detour into contemporary life in Pioneer Girl. Cristina García, author of King of Cuba and Dreaming in Cuban 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. “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.
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