Free Food for Millionaires by Min Jin Lee

Free Food for Millionaires by Min Jin Lee

In the stunning debut novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Pachinko, the Korean-American daughter of first-generation immigrants strives to join Manhattan's inner circle.



National Book Award finalist Min Jin Lee introduces the unforgettable Casey Han: a strong-willed, Queens-bred daughter of Korean immigrants, who seeks both glamour and insight in Manhattan--a glittering borough she cannot afford. Fresh out of Princeton with an economics degree, no job, and a white boyfriend she cannot introduce to her parents, Casey is determined to claim a space for herself--but how and at what cost?   



Lee's bestselling, sharp-eyed, sweeping epic of ambition, dreams, and uncertainties of life--set in a landscape where millionaires scramble for free lunches the poor are too proud to accept--is an addictively readable, startlingly sympathetic portrait of intergenerational strife and immigrant struggle, revealing the fascinating lives of a vital community clinging to its old ways in a moneyed city of haves and have-nots.



"Mesmerizing." --USA Today



Includes a Reading Group Guide.

Min Jin Lee has received fiction fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation (2018) and Harvard University's Radcliffe Center for Advanced Study (2018-2019). Pachinko (2017) was a National Book Award nominee for fiction, a runner-up for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, the winner of the Medici Book Club Prize, and one of the New York Times' Ten Best Books of 2017. Pachinko was a New York Times bestseller, as well as one of the BBC's and the New York Public Library's Ten Best Books of the Year, and a best foreign fiction pick for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. It appeared on over seventy-five best-of-the-year lists, including NPR, PBS, and CNN, and was a selection for Now Read This, PBS NewsHour and the New York Times' combined book club. Pachinko will be available in twenty-seven different languages.

Lee's debut novel, Free Food for Millionaires (2007), was a national bestseller and was named one of the finest books of the year by the Times of London, NPR's Fresh Air, and USA Today. Lee worked as a Morning Forum columnist for the Chosun Ilbo in South Korea for three seasons. She was recognized one of Adweek's Creative 100 in 2018 for being one of ten writers and editors who are altering the national debate, as well as one of the Frederick Douglass 200 by the Guardian.

Monmouth College awarded her an honorary doctor of humane letters degree. From 2019 to 2022, she will be a Writer-in-Residence at Amherst College.

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ISBN 13	9781538714850
ISBN 10	153871485X
Title	Free Food for Millionaires
Author	Min Jin Lee
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Grand Central Publishing
Year published	2018-06-05
Number of pages	624
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