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Stealing Buddha's Dinner

By Bich Minh Nguyen
Narrated by: Alice H. Kennedy
Unabridged — 7 hours, 55 minutes
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By Bich Minh Nguyen
Narrated by: Alice H. Kennedy
Unabridged — 7 hours, 55 minutes

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Beginning with her family’s harrowing migration out of Saigon in 1975, Stealing Buddha’s Dinner follows Bich Nguyen as she comes of age in the pre-PC-era Midwest. Filled with a rapacious hunger for American identity, Nguyen’s desire to belong transmutes into a passion for American food – Pringles, Kit Kats, and Toll House cookies. More exotic-seeming than her Buddhist grandmother’s traditional specialties, the campy, preservative-filled “delicacies” of mainstream America become an ingenious m…