{"product_id":"pioneer-girl-9780143126225","title":"Pioneer Girl","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Bich Minh Nguyen\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Penguin Adult Hc\/Tr\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Adult Hc\/Tr\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Women\u003c\/p\u003e\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":"Penguin Adult Hc\/Tr","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45408465387671,"sku":"9780143126225","price":1964.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780143126225.webp?v=1767149222","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/pioneer-girl-9780143126225","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}