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Viking
February 2014
On Sale: February 6, 2014
305 pages
ISBN: 0670025097
EAN: 9780670025091
Kindle: B00DMCV25A
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Fiction
From an award-winning author, a novel about a Vietnamese
American family’s ties to The Little House on the Prairie Jobless with a PhD, Lee Lien returns home to her Chicago
suburb from grad school, only to find herself contending
with issues she’s evaded since college. But when her brother
disappears, he leaves behind an
object from their mother’s Vietnam past that stirs up a
forgotten childhood dream: a gold-leaf brooch, abandoned by
an American reporter in Saigon back in 1965, that might be
an heirloom belonging to Laura Ingalls Wilder. As Lee
explores the tenuous facts of this connection, she unearths
more than expected—a trail of clues and enticements that
lead her from the dusty stacks of library archives to
hilarious prairie life reenactments and ultimately to San
Francisco, where her findings will transform strangers’
lives as well as her own. A dazzling literary mystery about the true origins of a
time-tested classic, Pioneer Girl is also the deeply moving
tale of a second-generation Vietnamese daughter, the parents
she struggles to honor, the missing brother she is expected
to bring home—even as her discoveries yield dramatic
insights that will free her to live her own life to its full
potential.
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