The pioneer girl who was continually packing up and starting over in a new land was a spiritual kin of sorts to Nguyen, who was born in Saigon and immigrated to Michigan with her family when she was a baby. That outsider perspective helped Nquyen bond with the Little House books when she was a child. She begins to see herself as an outsider.” The outsider perspective Minnesota is also where Laura became aware of her family’s poverty and class issues. That’s where their only son died, where the crops failed, grasshoppers came, fires, conflict between white settlers coming into native lands, devastating sickness.
“Things went so badly for that family in Minnesota that they had to move because of it. Fiction is about conflict, and so many truly awful things happened during the ‘Plum Creek’ years,” which were set in southwest Minnesota, says the author of “Pioneer Girl,” now out in paperback (Penguin). “The most interesting parts of the Little House books are the hardships, not the joyful times. So that’s where her obsession with the “Little House on the Prairie” books began. Minnesota is where everything went wrong for Laura Ingalls Wilder’s family, says writer Bich Minh Nguyen.
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