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ISBN: 9781549132162
| Runtime: | 25.23 Hours |
| Category: | Fiction |
| Audience: | Adult |
| Language: | English |
Summary
Summary
A People Pick of the Week
National Book Award finalist Min Jin Lee introduces the unforgettable Casey Han: a strong-willed, Queens-bred daughter of Korean immigrants, who seeks both glamour and insight in Manhattan—a glittering borough she cannot afford. Fresh out of Princeton with an economics degree, no job, and a white boyfriend she cannot introduce to her parents, Casey is determined to claim a space for herself—but how and at what cost?
Lee’s bestselling, sharp-eyed, sweeping epic of ambition, dreams, and uncertainties of life—set in a landscape where millionaires scramble for free lunches the poor are too proud to accept—is an addictively readable, startlingly sympathetic portrait of intergenerational strife and immigrant struggle, revealing the fascinating lives of a vital community clinging to its old ways in a moneyed city of haves and have-nots.
“Mesmerizing.” —USA Today
Includes a Reading Group Guide.
Editorial Reviews
Editorial Reviews
“This big, beguiling book has all the distinguishing marks of a Great American novel.” —The Times (London)
“Lee’s take on contemporary intergenerational cultural friction is wide-ranging, sympathetic, and well worth reading.” —Publishers Weekly
“With very broad strokes and great detail, Lee paints colorful three-dimensional characters and outlines intergenerational and cultural struggles brilliantly.” —Booklist
“Free Food for Millionaires stakes out new ground for twenty-first century American literature, territory both profoundly enlightening and utterly enjoyable.” —David Henry Hwang, playwright, M. Butterfly
Mesmerizing...Not since Jhumpa Lahiri's The Namesake has an author so exquisitely evoked what it's like to be an immigrant. —--USA Today
This big, beguiling book has all the distinguishing marks of a Great American novel. —--The Times (London)
Lee has updated the Victorian novel of progress to a postmodern, postfeminist world and imagined a character whose circumstances feel universal. —--Chicago Tribune
Author
Author Bio: Min Jin Lee
Min Jin Lee is a writer whose debut novel, Free Food for Millionaires, was one of the “Top 10 Novels of the Year” for the Times (London), NPR’s Fresh Air, and USA Today. Her short fiction has been featured on NPR’s Selected Shorts. Her writings have appeared in Condé Nast Traveler, Times (London), Vogue, Travel+Leisure, Wall Street Journal, New York Times Magazine, and Food & Wine. Her essays and literary criticism have been anthologized widely. She served as a columnist for the Chosun Ilbo, the leading paper of South Korea.
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Details
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| Available Formats : | Retail CD |
| Category: | Fiction |
| Runtime: | 25.23 |
| Audience: | Adult |
| Language: | English |
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