Long before Nina Newell was a pediatrician and writer here in Arizona, she and her family were refugees from Vietnam.They made a narrow escape from Saigon on a boat in 1975 and the trouble didn’t end there. After the family made it to the US, Nina endured a period of homelessness, before ultimately earning a Ph.D.When she met filmmaker Cindy Lee in a writing class, Lee was
This holiday season, This Show is bringing you true stories about what else food. And Phoenix writer Nina Newell recalls a holiday meal prepared with love and a heaping side of guilt.“I made a turkey for you!” My mother’s distinctive accent rings loud and clear above the noise of the arrival gate at Portland International Airport. It’s Christmas 1986. I’m 23, newly