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Bich Minh Nguyen

Standing on her tiptoes

by Keith Taylor

posted 10/5/2012

A few years ago Bich Nguyen had a remarkable debut as a writer. Her memoir, Stealing Buddha's Dinner--which was, among other things, her story about growing up as a Vietnamese immigrant in Grand Rapids--won some big national awards and was chosen as one of the first state-wide "Michigan Reads" books. In that book, the author's childhood attraction to the

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