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The book of salt

Considering whether he will accompany his employers, Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas, to America, a personal cook remembers his youth in French-colonized Vietnam and his days cooking for the doyennes of the Lost Generation.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Truong, Monique T. D.
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English
Published:	Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2004, c2003.
Subjects:	Stein, Gertrude, > 1874-1946 > Fiction. Toklas, Alice B. > Fiction.
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Summary:	Considering whether he will accompany his employers, Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas, to America, a personal cook remembers his youth in French-colonized Vietnam and his days cooking for the doyennes of the Lost Generation.
Item Description:	Reprint. Originally published: 2003. "A Mariner book."
Physical Description:	261 p. ; 21 cm.
ISBN:	0618446885 : PAP
Author Notes:	MONIQUE TRUONG was born in Saigon in 1968 and moved to the United States at age six. She graduated from Yale University and the Columbia University School of Law, going on to specialize in intellectual property. Truong coedited the anthology Watermark: Vietnamese American Poetry and Prose. Her first novel,The Book of Salt, a national bestseller, was awarded the 2003 Bard Fiction Prize, the Stonewall Book Award-Barbara Gittings Literature Award, and the Young Lions Fiction Award, among otherhonors. Granting Truong an Award of Excellence, the Vietnamese American Studies Center at San Francisco State University called her a pioneer in the field, as an academic, an advocate, and an artist.""