Author: Ben Ryder Howe
Translator: Soo-young Lee
Publisher: Jeongeun Munko
434 pages | 210*148mm
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| >>>This book is written in Korean. |
About This Book
Risking It All for a Convenience Store
This warm and funny tale of an earnest preppy editor finding himself
trapped behind the counter of a Brooklyn convenience store is about
family, culture and identity in an age of discombobulation.
It starts with a gift, when Ben Ryder Howe's wife, the daughter of
Korean immigrants, decides to repay her parents' self-sacrifice by
buying them a store. Howe, an editor at the rarefied Paris Review,
agrees to go along. Things soon become a lot more complicated. After the
business struggles, Howe finds himself living in the basement of his
in-laws' Staten Island home, commuting to the Paris Review offices in
George Plimpton's Upper East Side townhouse by day, and heading to
Brooklyn at night to slice cold cuts and peddle lottery tickets. My
Korean Deli follows the store's tumultuous life span, and along the way
paints the portrait of an extremely unlikely partnership between
characters with shoots across society, from the Brooklyn streets to
Seoul to Puritan New England. Owning the deli becomes a transformative
experience for everyone involved as they struggle to salvage the
original gift—and the family—while sorting out issues of values, work,
and identity.
About the Author
Ben Ryder Howe has written for The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly,
and Outside, and his work has been selected for Best American Travel
Writing. He is a former senior editor of The Paris Review. He, his wife,
and their two children live on Staten Island. This is his first book.
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