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Pioneer Girl by Bich Minh Nguyen
4.0
Rather than writing a blurb about this novel I think the following quote is the perfect glimpse at Pioneer Girl it highlights the mystery, the history, and the story within a story that comes to life on its pages.
"For the second time in a week, I turned into a thief. I didn’t even think before the photograph was in my notebook, closed between blank pages where I had yet to write anything down about Rose Wilder Lane, or Laura Ingalls Wilder, or why I was there at the Hoover Library, looking them up, searching for, maybe hoping for, my own claim on America’s favorite pioneer family."
Pioneer Girl by Bich Minh Nguyen is a 2014 release about a Vietnamese American family and their small connection with The Little House on the Prairie via an heirloom pin. It’s fiction but it reads like a memoir and I’m a sucker for authors influenced by Laura Ingalls Wilder. Nguyen’s eye for family dynamics is acute and realistic, the parallels between the pioneer life of the 19th century and Lee Lien’s family’s own contemporary nomadic life in the midwest works wonderfully as an exploration in childhood memories, family bounds, and historical mystery. The novel is a light read on the surface but it does take a look at how literature and family impacts and shapes us in early adulthood. Anyone interested in books about books don’t hesitate to grab a copy! 4/5 stars
"For the second time in a week, I turned into a thief. I didn’t even think before the photograph was in my notebook, closed between blank pages where I had yet to write anything down about Rose Wilder Lane, or Laura Ingalls Wilder, or why I was there at the Hoover Library, looking them up, searching for, maybe hoping for, my own claim on America’s favorite pioneer family."
Pioneer Girl by Bich Minh Nguyen is a 2014 release about a Vietnamese American family and their small connection with The Little House on the Prairie via an heirloom pin. It’s fiction but it reads like a memoir and I’m a sucker for authors influenced by Laura Ingalls Wilder. Nguyen’s eye for family dynamics is acute and realistic, the parallels between the pioneer life of the 19th century and Lee Lien’s family’s own contemporary nomadic life in the midwest works wonderfully as an exploration in childhood memories, family bounds, and historical mystery. The novel is a light read on the surface but it does take a look at how literature and family impacts and shapes us in early adulthood. Anyone interested in books about books don’t hesitate to grab a copy! 4/5 stars