After much deliberation and narrowing down titles, we have chosen Stealing Buddha's Dinner by Bich Minh Nguyen as our selection for the 2010-11 academic year.
Don't know much about this book? Don't worry! Here's some information to get you started:
In her memoir Stealing Buddha’s Dinner, Vietnamese immigrant Bich Minh Nguyen chronicles this new life as she navigates competing and conflicting cultural identities and struggles to fit into a community where she often feels like an outsider. Bich forgoes any rigidly defined identity and instead creates her own. Studded with pop culture references and narrated with a youthful, honest, and accessible voice, Stealing Buddha’s Dinner inspires readers to investigate their cultural influences, explore their family roots, and discover how contemporary events have affected their lives.
The iRead program will be integrated into the Foundations of Scholarship and Learning course being developed for entering freshmen students. We are in the process of planning iRead events and activities related to the themes of the book. If you have any suggestions about community resources or ideas for activities, please contact Eloise Hitchcock (ehitchcock@cumberland.edu), Director of the Vise Library. Watch the blog for more information about upcoming events!
