Pioneer Girl

Available from Nook & Cranny Books when we last checked. Sold from the shop’s own store; the price there is the one that counts.

“A powerful and wholly original American saga.” — San Francisco Chronicle Bich Minh Nguyen’s previous books—the acclaimed memoir Stealing Buddha’s Dinner and the American Book Award–winning novel Short Girls —established her talents as a writer of keen cultural observation. 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 l