Free Food for Millionaires - by Min Jin Lee (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>"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?"--Back cover.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>In this One Book, One New York 2019 nominee from the author of National Book Award Finalist <i>Pachinko</i>, the Korean-American daughter of first-generation immigrants strives to join Manhattan's inner circle.</b></br></br>Meet Casey Han: a strong-willed, Queens-bred daughter of Korean immigrants immersed in a glamorous Manhattan lifestyle she can't afford. Casey is eager to make it on her own, away from the judgements of her parents' tight-knit community, but she soon finds that her Princeton economics degree isn't enough to rid her of ever-growing credit card debt and a toxic boyfriend. When a chance encounter with an old friend lands her a new opportunity, she's determined to carve a space for herself in a glittering world of privilege, power, and wealth-but at what cost?</br></br>Set in a city where millionaires scramble for the free lunches the poor are too proud to accept, this sharp-eyed epic of love, greed, and ambition is a compelling portrait of intergenerational strife, immigrant struggle, and social and economic mobility. Addictively readable, Min Jin Lee's bestselling debut <i>Free Food for Millionaires </i>exposes the intricate layers of a community clinging to its old ways in a city packed with haves and have-nots.</br></br><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>Lee has updated the Victorian novel of progress to a postmodern, postfeminist world and imagined a character whose circumstances feel universal.--<i><b>--Chicago Tribune</b></i><br><br>Mesmerizing...Not since Jhumpa Lahiri's <i>The Namesake</i> has an author so exquisitely evoked what it's like to be an immigrant.--<i><b>--USA Today</b></i><br><br>This big, beguiling book has all the distinguishing marks of a Great American novel.--<i><b>--The Times (London)</b></i><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Min Jin Lee is a recipient of fellowships in Fiction from the Guggenheim Foundation (2018) and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard (2018-2019). Her novel <i>Pachinko</i> (2017) was a finalist for the National Book Award for Fiction, a runner-up for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, winner of the Medici Book Club Prize, and one of the <i>New York Times</i>' Ten Best Books of 2017. A <i>New York Times</i> bestseller, <i>Pachinko</i> was also one of the Ten Best Books of the year for BBC and the New York Public Library, and a best international fiction pick for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. In total, it was on over seventy-five best books of the year lists, including NPR, PBS, and CNN, and it was a selection for Now Read This<i>, </i> the joint book club of <i>PBS NewsHour</i> and the<i> New York Times</i>. <i> Pachinko</i> will be translated into twenty-seven languages. Lee's debut novel <i>Free Food for Millionaires</i> (2007) was one of the best books of the year for the <i>Times </i>of London, NPR's <i>Fresh Air</i>, and <i>USA Today</i>, and it was a national bestseller. Her writings have appeared in the <i>New Yorker</i>, NPR's <i>Selected Shorts</i>, <i>One Story, </i>the <i>New York Review of Books, </i>the <i>New York Times Magazine, </i>the <i>New York Times Book Review, </i>the <i>Times Literary Supplement, </i>the <i>Guardian, Cond</i><i>é</i><i> Nast Traveler, </i>the <i>Times </i>of London<i>, </i>and<i></i>the <i>Wall Street Journal. </i>Lee served three consecutive seasons as a Morning Forum columnist of the <i>Chosun Ilbo</i> of South Korea. In 2018, she was named as one of Adweek's Creative 100 for being one of the ten writers and editors who are changing the national conversation, and one of the <i>Guardian</i>'s Frederick Douglass 200. She received an honorary doctor of humane letters degree from Monmouth College. She will be a Writer-in-Residence at Amherst College from 2019-2022.
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