Author Nguyen struggles to balance her Vietnamese past and Michigan present
After fleeing Vietnam on a boat with her family in 1975, Bich Minh Nguyen found herself in the tall, blond and devoutly conservative community of Grand Rapids, desperate to figure out just how to be a Michigander and a "real" American. read the full story
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