Free Food for Millionaires - Softcover

Lee, Min Jin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1455571679 ISBN 13: 9781455571673

Publisher: Grand Central Pub, 2017

Synopsis

FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST PACHINKO
New York Times Book Review Editor's ChoiceNPR Fresh Air Top Ten Books of the YearUSA Today Top Ten Books of the YearThe Times (London) Top Ten Books of the Year
In her critically acclaimed debut, National Book Award finalist Min Jin Lee introduces the indelible Casey Han: a strong-willed, Queens-bred daughter of Korean immigrants who is addicted to a glamorous Manhattan lifestyle she cannot afford. Fresh out of Princeton with an economics degree, no job, and a popular white boyfriend, Casey is determined to carve a space for herself in the glittering world she craves-but at what cost?
Lee's bestselling, sharp-eyed, sweeping epic of love, greed, and hunger-set in a landscape where millionaires scramble for the free lunches the poor are too proud to accept-is an addictively readable, startlingly sympathetic portrait of intergenerational strife and immigrant struggle, exposing the intricate layers of a community clinging to its old ways in a city packed with haves and have-nots.

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Review:

"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

About the Author:

Min Jin Lee's 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 second novel, Pachinko, was a finalist for the National Book Award for Fiction in 2017 and was named one of the "Top Ten Books of the Year" by the New York Times. Her short fiction has been featured on NPR's Selected Shorts. Her writings have appeared in The Times Literary Supplement, Cond? Nast Traveler, The 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. She lives in New York with her family.

About this edition

• Publisher: Grand Central Pub
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1455571679
• ISBN 13: 9781455571673
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 603