Q: And like Lee, were you born in the U.S.?Ī: I was actually born in Vietnam they left for the U.S. To investigate her theory, Lee embarks on a journey of discovery that takes her to San Francisco, where she realizes that the Wilder family's history and that of her own are connected, and reflect each other, in more ways than one.Ī: Yes, in 1975, right before the fall of Saigon. Long fascinated by Laura Ingalls Wilder's "Little House on the Prairie" books about pioneer life in the late 19th century, Lee comes to suspect that a gold-leaf brooch left by an American woman at her grandfather's cafe in Saigon actually belonged to Rose Wilder, the author's daughter. "Pioneer Girl" is the story of Lee, a young woman who, with her career in academia stalled, is forced to move back in with her strict mother and gentle grandfather, who immigrated to the United States from Vietnam in the mid-1970s. But as Bich Minh Nguyen suggests in her new novel "Pioneer Girl," set in the western suburbs of Chicago, certain kinds of unhappiness within families can seem awfully consistent in wildly disparate times, places and cultural backgrounds. Every unhappy family, Tolstoy tells us in the first line of "Anna Karenina," is unhappy in its own way.
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