{"product_id":"pioneer-girl-9780143126225","title":"Pioneer Girl","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"A powerful and wholly original American saga.\" --\u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Penguin Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/27\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780143126225\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.40lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.10h x 4.80w x 0.80d","brand":"Bich Minh Nguyen","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43059670286517,"sku":"9780143126225","price":19.55,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_7f1cc56b-e942-4468-a67d-1830b154a72e.jpg?v=1690296760","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/pioneer-girl-9780143126225","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}