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 · By Bich Minh Nguyen (Viking; pages; $) Bich Minh Nguyen's debut novel, "Short Girls," tells the story of two Vietnamese American sisters, Van and Linny Luong, who grow up in . For anyone teaching The American Dream, or the immigrant experience, this is the novel to use alongside Gatsby. Bich Minh Nguyen captures the American Dream seamlessly in her characters: The father, Dinh Luong, who reaches, with short stature and invention, to make America the elusive "Land of Opportunity" the world envisions; Linny, the youngest daughter, who embodies her parents' escape /5(65). Buy Short Girls by Nguyen, Bich Minh (ISBN: ) from Amazon's Book Store. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible www.doorway.rus:

Bich Minh Nguyen. Bich Minh Nguyen (who goes by the name Beth) teaches literature and creative writing in San Francisco, where she lives with her husband and their two children. Among her honors are a PEN/Jerard Fund Award and an American Book Award. Her work has appeared in publications including the Found Magazine anthology and The New York. Short Girls. by. Bich Minh Nguyen. · Rating details · ratings · reviews. A mesmerizing novel about estranged sisters and the cultural and family history that binds them. Van and Linny Luong are as baffling to each other as their parents' Vietnamese legacy is to them both. Van, the quintessential overachiever, has applied the. Review: Short Girls by Bich Minh Nguyen Short Girls is the story of Van and Linny, second generation Vietnamese American sisters. They are both quite different from each other Van is ambitious and holds herself to impossibly high standards while Linny is the beautiful sister who hasn't quite figured out what she wants from life yet.

Short Girls. by Bich Minh Nguyen. X. Readers' rating: Not Yet Rated. Published in USA Jul pages Genre: Novels Publication Information. Debut. Rate this book. “This is a country of tall people,” Dinh Luong frequently reminds his daughters, Van and Linny, the protagonists of Bich Minh Nguyen’s first novel, “Short Girls,” which follows her. The February pick for my book club was Bich Minh Nguyen's Short Girls. Van and Linh Luong are second-generation Vietnamese Americans. Written in chapters that alternate their points of view, Short Girls tells how they came to live such wildly different lives in spite of their childhood closeness.