Showing posts with label Pioneer Girl. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Pioneer Girl. Show all posts

Tuesday, January 27, 2015

Win a Free Paperback of Pioneer Girl by Bich Minh Nguyen


You've heard me talk twice this week about how much I loved this book. Now, you have a chance to win a free copy of the paperback version, which was released today. Here is the official description:

In Pioneer Girl, 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 Little House on the Prairie.

Lee 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.

You can read my review of this book here.

TERMS AND CONDITIONS:


  • You must be 18 years of age or older.
  • Winner must be a resident of the United States.
  • Contest runs from 12:00 AM EST on 1/27/15 to 12:00 AM EST on 2/7/15.
  • Winner will be announced on 2/9/15 and have 48 hours to respond with mailing address before a new winner is selected.
  • The Book Connection is not responsible for items lost or damaged in shipment.
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Wednesday, March 5, 2014

Book Review Excerpt: Pioneer Girl by Bich Minh Nguyen

A fascinating novel of family and culture mingled with mystery and bound to the story of an American icon is what you'll find in Pioneer Girl by Bich Minh Nguyen.

After obtaining her PhD in American literature, a jobless Lee Lien finds herself heading home to the Chicago suburbs to work in her mother and grandfather's café. Before long, Lee's tense relationship with her overbearing mother leaves her hoping to break away from a life she always seems drawn back to. When her older brother comes home only to quickly disappear again, he leaves behind a gold-leaf brooch from their mother's past in Vietnam that stirs up the forgotten childhood dream of an American reporter who visited her grandfather's original café in Saigon in 1965. Based upon a passage from the Little House books, Lee is convinced the reporter must have been Rose Wilder Lane, daughter of Laura Ingalls Wilder. Could this pin link her family to one of America's most famous pioneering legacies?

To read my entire review, please visit http://lauralittlehouseontheprairie.blogspot.com/2014/03/book-review-pioneer-girl-by-bich-minh.html