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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.
Min Jin Lee’s Pachinko (Feb 2017) is a national bestseller, a New York Times Editor’s Choice and an American Booksellers Association’s Indie Next Great Reads. Lee’s debut novel Free Food for Millionaires (May 2007) was a No. 1 Book Sense Pick, a New York Times Editor’s Choice, a Wall Street Journal Juggle Book Club selection, and a national bestseller; it was a Top 10 Novels of the Year for The Times of London, NPR’s Fresh Air and USA Today.
Min Jin went to Yale College where she was awarded both the Henry Wright Prize for Nonfiction and the James Ashmun Veech Prize for Fiction. She attended law school at Georgetown University and worked as a lawyer for several years in New York prior to writing full time.
She has received the NYFA Fellowship for Fiction, the Peden Prize from The Missouri Review for Best Story, and the Narrative Prize for New and Emerging Writer. Her fiction has been featured on NPR’s Selected Shorts and has appeared most recently in One Story. Her writings about books, travel and food have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The New York Times Book Review, The Times Literary Supplement, Conde Nast Traveler, The Times of London, Vogue (US), Travel + Leisure (SEA), Wall Street Journal and Food & Wine. Her personal essays have been anthologized in To Be Real, Breeder, The Mark Twain Anthology: Great Writers on His Life and Work, One Big Happy Family, Sugar in My Bowl, and The Global and the Intimate: Feminism in Our Time. She served three consecutive seasons as a Morning Forum columnist of the Chosun Ilbo of South Korea.
Lee has spoken about writing, politics, film and literature at various institutions including Columbia University, French Institute Alliance Francaise, The Center for Fiction, Tufts, Loyola Marymount University, Stanford, Johns Hopkins (SAIS), University of Connecticut, Boston College, Hamilton College, Hunter College of New York, Harvard Law School, Yale University, Ewha University, Waseda University, the American School in Japan, World Women’s Forum, Korean Community Center (NJ), the Hay Literary Festival (UK), the Tokyo American Center of the U.S. Embassy, the Asia House (UK), and the Asia Society in New York, San Francisco and Hong Kong. In 2017, she won the Literary Death Match (Brooklyn/Episode 8), and she is a proud alumna of Women of Letters (Public Theater).
From 2007 to 2011, Min Jin lived in Tokyo where she researched and wrote Pachinko. She lives in New York with her family.
Stumbled upon this book and immediately started to read as I love Min Jin Lee’s second novel Pachinko. It took me quite long for almost 2 weeks to finish reading, but the story itself was absorbing. It was hard to like Casey Han at the beginning, but later I found she was just so real and perfectly flawed, so were other characters.
评分Min Jin Lee非常会讲故事。刚开个头,我就完全被吸引了。随着故事几根线的发展,人物形象逐渐丰满起来。她讲故事有一种魅力,就是不知不觉就已经听了几个小时了,听到最后一个小时的时候,很舍不得,不想就这样结束了。这就是生活,时而微笑,时而愤怒,最多的是无奈。虽然比起她的另一本更加轰动文坛的Pachinko,这本书没有跨时代的荡气回肠,但是也是让我爱不释手。拍成电影又会是另一种震撼的。
评分接近全書過半的時候,看到「1997」,才意識到故事發生時間是上世紀九十年代後半頁。可是,書中人物的困頓與掙扎,到今天我還能在自己和身邊的人身上看到。
评分回来的第二天就去买了这本书,如果不是因为搬家我可能三天就会读完了,太好看了啊,好会写!!! 然后九月的最后一个周日见到了作者本人!啊 Casey Han就是她自己啊!
评分Stumbled upon this book and immediately started to read as I love Min Jin Lee’s second novel Pachinko. It took me quite long for almost 2 weeks to finish reading, but the story itself was absorbing. It was hard to like Casey Han at the beginning, but later I found she was just so real and perfectly flawed, so were other characters.
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