"A powerful and wholly original American saga." -- San Francisco Chronicle Bich Minh Nguyen's previous books--the acclaimed memoir Stealing Buddha's Dinner and the American Book Award-winning novel Short Girls --established her talents as a writer of keen cultural observation. In Pioneer Girl , Nguyen entwines the Asian American experience with the escapist pleasures of literature, in a dazzling mystery about the origins of Laura Ingalls Wilder's...