Chantha Nguon's touching memoir, 'Slow Noodles', is filled with insight about survival. Caught between two war-ravaged countries (Cambodia and Vietnam), Nguon lives through hunger, poverty, violence, and loss. As she recounts her painful experiences in this book, she not only shares her history but also the lessons she's learned from being a female wartime survivor in Southeast Asia.
Was the Barbie movie inspired by a Korean novel?
Much like the Barbie movie, this book was reductive, and pointed at mere observations rather than an informed understanding of socialised human behavior.