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Bich Minh Nguyen received the PEN/Jerard Award for her memoir Stealing Buddha's Dinner, which was a Chicago Tribune Best Book of 2007 and a BookSense pick. It was also selected as The Great Michigan Read for 2009-2010. Bich has appeared on programs such as The Newshour with Jim Lehrer. She lives in Chicago and Indiana, where she teaches literature and creative writing at Purdue University.

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Average rating: 3.53 · 8,169 ratings · 1,399 reviews · 13 distinct works • Similar authors

	Stealing Buddha's Dinner 3.56 avg rating — 4,108 ratings — published 2007 — 23 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Owner of a Lonely Heart by Beth Nguyen, Bich Minh Nguyen 3.62 avg rating — 2,078 ratings — published 2023 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Pioneer Girl 3.40 avg rating — 2,085 ratings — published 2014 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Short Girls 3.32 avg rating — 1,084 ratings — published 2009 — 20 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Pretty Bitches: On Being Called Crazy, Angry, Bossy, Frumpy, Feisty, and All the Other Words That Are Used to Undermine Women by Lizzie Skurnick (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Adaora Udoji (Contributor), Afua Hirsch (Contributor) 3.93 avg rating — 736 ratings — published 2020 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Waveform: Twenty-First-Century Essays by Women by Marcia Aldrich (Goodreads Author) (editor), Eula Biss (Contributor), Barrie Jean Borich (Contributor) 4.09 avg rating — 131 ratings — published 2016 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	30/30: Thirty American Stories from the Last Thirty Years (Penguin Academics Series) by Porter Shreve (Goodreads Author), Bich Minh Nguyen 3.94 avg rating — 71 ratings — published 2005 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Contemporary American Short Story by Bich Minh Nguyen, Porter Shreve (Goodreads Author) 4.27 avg rating — 45 ratings — published 2003 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Contemporary Creative Nonfiction: I & Eye by Bich Minh Nguyen, Porter Shreve (Goodreads Author) 4.02 avg rating — 45 ratings — published 2004 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Contemporary Creative Nonfiction 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“I read to be alone. I read so as not to be alone.”
― Bich Minh Nguyen, Stealing Buddha's Dinner

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“Everyone is always leaving each other, chasing down the next seeming opportunity—home or body. Where does it stop? Does it ever? I want to believe it all leads to something grander than the imagination, grander than the end-stop of the Pacific. Or is that it: You get to the place where you land; you are tired now; you settle. You settle. You build a home and raise a family. There are years of eating and arguing, working and waking. There are years of dying. No one knows what the last image will be.”
― Bich Minh Nguyen, Pioneer Girl

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“I looked back all the time, too much, too often. Like Rose, I would be circling my mother the rest of my life.”
― Bich Minh Nguyen, Pioneer Girl

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