Every unhappy family, Tolstoy tells us in the first line of “Anna Karenina,” is unhappy in its own way. Maybe so. But as Bich Minh Nguyen suggests in her new novel “Pioneer Girl,” set in the western ...

Bich Minh Nguyen, associate professor of English and author of Purdue's first Common Reading Program selection "Stealing Buddha's Dinner," spoke to incoming Purdue students in two special convocations ...

The Michigan Humanities Council’s Great Michigan Read puts author Bich Minh Nguyen all over the state of Michigan. More than 170 partners so far — libraries, schools, counties, communities, book clubs ...

American literary genres are usually comfortably compartmentalized. Here we have immigrant stories. Over there, on the far side, we have Westerns. In the back, by the restroom, there may be a book or ...

Minnesota is where everything went wrong for Laura Ingalls Wilder’s family, says writer Bich Minh Nguyen. So that’s where her obsession with the “Little House on the Prairie” books began. “The most ...

Author Bich Minh Nguyen, a professor of creative writing at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, remembers it was often frowned upon to write about immigration and the refugee experience when she was ...

Bich Minh Nguyen's debut novel, "Short Girls," tells the story of two Vietnamese American sisters, Van and Linny Luong, who grow up in the hinterlands of western Michigan. This sense of being on the ...

The immigrant's struggle to figure out what it means to be a true American is a familiar tale in American literature. Some find a path to acceptance in music or sports. Others find solace in hard work ...

Growing up in Grand Rapids, Vietnamese refugee Bich Minh Nguyen struggled to fit in with her American peers. Years later, Nguyen visited her ancestral homeland and realized she didn’t feel Vietnamese, ...

Who hasn't fantasized that a family heirloom is actually a valuable piece of history that might be worth a fortune? It's the dream that made Antiques Roadshow a hit and has sent legions of ...