“he Ingalls are pioneers in the mid-to-late 1800s moving westward, searching for a new home,” Nguyen explains in a recent NPR interview, “And my own family had come from Vietnam in 1975. In pa’s restlessness, ma’s acquiescence in settling and re-settling as they tried to find a comfortable and provident home in the hardships the family faced as so many attempts met with disappointment in the moments of success, cohesiveness, and relative comfort, when the family were able to rest and enjoy being part of a community in the moments of affection and support that the family gave to one another: Little House presents a kind of extended metaphor for the experience of Nguyen’s own family.
This little girl, wearing her Chucks with an old-fashioned red dress and bow, represents a more contemporary pioneer.
It’s no accident that the hardcover design of Bich Minh Nguyen’s Pioneer Girl evokes Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Little House On The Prairie books. The font is large like a children’s book the dust-jacket made of slightly sepia-tinted stock in the background, a log cabin with an open door, surrounded by meadow and flowers, with a grazing deer in the foreground a little pioneer girl in pigtails.
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