Stealing Buddha's Dinner AUTH-11815307 A clearing in the ponderosa

A clearing in the ponderosa pine forest called Volunteer Prairie met the military's criteria for a munitions depot--open terrain

Cynthia Winton-Henry

secretive Josie--was killed behind the wheel in a single-car accident that's left a mess of unanswered questions in its wake

bigotry and tumult

ISBN10: 1166270297

Stealing Buddha's Dinner AUTH-11815307 A clearing in the ponderosaWinner of the PEN Jerard Award Chicago Tribune Best Book of the Year Kiriyama Notable Book [A] perfectly pitched and prodigiously detailed memoir. Boston Globe As a Vietnamese girl coming of age in Grand Rapids, Michigan, Nguyen is filled with a rapacious hunger for American identity, and in the pre PC era Midwest (where the Jennifers and Tiffanys reign supreme), the desire to belong transmutes into a passion for American food. More exotic seeming