Min Jin Lee
MIN JIN LEE is the author of the novels Free Food for Millionaires and Pachinko , a finalist for the National Book Award and runner-up for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. Lee is the recipient of the 2022 Manhae Grand Prize for Literature from South Korea and of fellowships in fiction from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Radcliffe Institute of Advanced Study at Harvard University, and the New York Foundation for the Arts. She is a writer-in-residence at Amherst College and serves as a trustee...See more
MIN JIN LEE is the author of the novels Free Food for Millionaires and Pachinko , a finalist for the National Book Award and runner-up for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. Lee is the recipient of the 2022 Manhae Grand Prize for Literature from South Korea and of fellowships in fiction from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Radcliffe Institute of Advanced Study at Harvard University, and the New York Foundation for the Arts. She is a writer-in-residence at Amherst College and serves as a trustee of PEN America and a director of the Authors Guild. She is at work on her third novel, American Hagwon , and a nonfiction work, Name Recognition . See less
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Min Jin Lee book reviews
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Pachinko
A Novel Of Koreans And Japan
The American novelist Min Jin Lee's "Pachinko" (2017) is a lengthy family saga of a Korean family extending from the years 1910 through 1989. The early part of the story (1910 -- 1933) is set in a ... Read More
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Free Food for Millionaires
Korean-American Chick Lit
A new twist on the young-woman-in-the-big-city theme, Free Food is an enoyable novel about Casey Han and her search for love and fulfillment in 1990s New York.
The characters are well-realized, and ... Read More
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Free Food for Millionaires
Friendly Reading?
by Shireen, Jul 11, 2007
Casey Han is a Princeton graduate, yet grew up in Queens with her financially-struggling Korean parents. While she feels she belongs in the realm of the rich and famous (or at least rich) she has no ... Read More