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Free Food for Millionaires

Free Food for Millionaires

Pages
624
Published
2007
Language
English

Synopsis

Casey Han's four years at Princeton gave her many things, "But no job and a number of bad habits." Casey's parents, who live in Queens, are Korean immigrants working in a dry cleaner, desperately trying to hold on to their culture and their identity. Their daughter, on the other hand, has entered into rarified American society via scholarships. But after graduation, Casey sees the reality of having expensive habits without the means to sustain them. As she navigates Manhattan, we see her life and the lives around her, culminating in a portrait of New York City and its world of haves and have-nots. FREE FOOD FOR MILLIONAIRES offers up a fresh exploration of the complex layers we inhabit both in society and within ourselves. Inspired by 19th century novels such as Vanity Fair and Middlemarch, Min Jin Lee examines maintaining one's identity within changing communities in what is her remarkably assured debut.

About the author

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Min Jin Lee

Min Jin Lee is a Korean American novelist, born in Seoul in 1968. Her family emigrated to the United States when she was seven and settled in Queens, New York. She studied history at Yale and law at Georgetown, and worked as a corporate lawyer in New York before ill health led her to leave the profession and write full time. Her first novel, Free Food for Millionaires, appeared in 2007. Her second, Pachinko, traces a Korean family across generations after they migrate to Japan; it was a finalist...