Free Food for Millionaires (2-Volume Set)
Author: Min Jin Lee
Translator: Ok-yong Lee
Publisher: Imagebox
2-volume set | 210*142mm
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About This Book
"Competence can be a curse." So begins Min Jin Lee's epic novel about
class, society, and identity. Casey Han's four years at Princeton have
given her many things: "a refined diction, an enviable golf handicap, a
popular white boyfriend, an agnostic's closeted passion for reading the
Bible, and a magna cum laude degree in economics. 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 onto their culture and identity.
Their daughter, on the other hand, has entered into the upper echelon of
rarified American society via scholarships. But after graduation,
Casey's trust-fund friends see only opportunity and choices while Casey
sees the reality of having expensive habits without the means to sustain
them. As Casey navigates Manhattan, we see her life and the lives of
those around her: her sheltered mother, scarred father, her friend Ella
who's always been the good Korean girl, Ella's ambitious Korean husband
and his Caucasian mistress, Casey's white fiance, and then her Korean
boyfriend, all 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 identity within changing communities. This is a remarkably
assured debut from a writer to watch.
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