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Mango and Peppercorns: A Memoir of Food, an Unlikely Family, and the American Dream
Mango and Peppercorns

By Tung Nguyen, Katherine Manning, Lyn Nguyen and Elisa Ung

Published 2021

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Miami, 1980s

Kathy’s Grandma Peterson (Anna Katherine Peterson), with two of her great-grandchildren, early 1960s.

Kathy as a teenager, 1960s.

Tung (left) and her friend, Sinh, in Saigon, 1974.

The ring Tung’s grandmother, whom she called Bà Nội, passed on to her.

Tung at the Fort Indiantown Gap refugee camp in Pennsylvania, 1975.

Tung and newborn Phuong Lien, spring 1976.

Kathy and baby Phuong Lien playing with a box, 1976.

Tung cooking in the kitchen at home, 1977.

Phuong Lien with Kathy’s mother, Gwendolyn Manning, whom she called Grandma, 1979.