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Pioneer Girl by Bich Minh Nguyen is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Pioneer Girl about?

From an award-winning author, a novel about a Vietnamese American family's ties to The Little House on the PrairieJobless 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...

Who reads Pioneer Girl?

It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.

Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.

Author
Bich Minh Nguyen
Publisher
Penguin Group US
Published
2014
Language
EN
Category
work of fiction
Subjects
Fiction
Rating
3.35 / 5 (1,361 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-14

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