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Free Food for Millionaires, by Min Jin Lee
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"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
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About the Author
p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 48.0px; text-indent: -48.0px; font: 11.0px Arial} span.s1 {font-kerning: none} span.s2 {font: 11.0px Helvetica; font-kerning: none} 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 Pachinko (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 New York Times' "Ten Best Books of 2017." A New York Times bestseller, Pachinko 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, the joint book club of PBS NewsHour and the New York Times. Pachinko will be translated into twenty-seven languages. Lee's debut novel Free Food for Millionaires (2007) was one of the best books of the year for the Times of London, NPR's Fresh Air, and USA Today, and it was a national bestseller. Her writings have appeared in the New Yorker, NPR's Selected Shorts, One Story, the New York Review of Books, the New York Times Magazine, the New York Times Book Review, the Times Literary Supplement, the Guardian, Condé Nast Traveler, the Times of London, and the Wall Street Journal. Lee served three consecutive seasons as a Morning Forum columnist of the Chosun Ilbo 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 Guardian'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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Product details
Paperback: 624 pages
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing; Reissue edition (June 5, 2018)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 153871485X
ISBN-13: 978-1538714850
Product Dimensions:
5.2 x 1.1 x 8 inches
Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review:
4.0 out of 5 stars
208 customer reviews
Amazon Best Sellers Rank:
#21,955 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
I read Her other best seller first and like it, so I wanted to try this book. It was not good. It was like juvenile writing, and as if the author was writing about characters she wished she could be - Ella is beautiful and wouldn't hurt a fly think of Melainie Wilkes in,Gone with the Wnd, Casey the main character has a mother who is the most beautiful woman everyone had ever seen, and is niave,and innocent. Casey has a benefactor who is uber rich,and generous, etc, etc. The banter/dialogue between Casey and her co-workers or descriptions of interactions feel flat. I do not recommend this book, but the other one I do.
Stumbled upon this and so glad I did. This is a smart read with characters that are developed and compelling. The author's perspective on relationships and their impact on personalities is spot on. After reading dozens of books that appear to have similar story lines, this was a breath of fresh air. I could not put it down. Our Korean protagonist who is in turmoil about friendships, romance, education and finance becomes more and more likeable as the story goes on. She suffers the pangs of her own family dysfunction while trying to stand on her own two feet. The writing is excellent, the pacing keeps you wanting more. This is literary without being the least bit stuffy. You are in for a great read.
I read Pachinko last year and loved it. Based on that, I decided to read Ms. Lee’s debut novel Free Food for Millionaires. It also received a lot of critical praise. I am ambivalent about this book because while I found it compulsively readable, I did not really enjoy the story and I did not like or relate to the characters. I even considered not finishing it. I say it was compulsively readable because despite not liking it very much, I really wanted to find out what happened to the characters and how the book ended. I think this speaks to Ms. Lee’s gift as a story teller—you are hooked even if you don’t like the book!Free Food takes place in New York City in the 1990’s. Casey Han, oldest daughter of Korean immigrants, has just graduated from Princeton with a degree in economics and no job. She has a successful white boyfriend, an abusive father, and a younger sister who is the perfect child headed off to medical school. Casey covets beautiful and expensive things, cannot afford them, but buys them anyway. She has wealthy friends and a very wealthy mentor, but many of these relationships also have a price. Casey has talent as a hat designer, but thinks that working on Wall Street is the only way to succeed. The novel also focuses on one of Casey’s friends who chooses a husband and baby over a career; Casey’s passive and unhappy but musically gifted naive mother; her self-made mentor; and various co-workers and boyfriends. Everyone is searching and no one seems happy in work or romance. The ending was happy for most of the characters and it was a bit predictable.I found it interesting to read Ms. Lee’s novels in reverse order. You can really see the growth and maturity of the writer. The multi-generational story in Pachinko is better written, I cared about the fate of the characters even if I did not like them, and the prose was gorgeous. I also thought that the Korean immigrant experience was better articulated in Pachinko than in Free Food for Millionaires. Free Food seemed more like a soap opera to me. On the strength of Pachinko, I am eagerly awaiting her third book!
I am a Korean American, and I've never read a novel that described my world until this one. Well, I don't know as many rich people or bankers, but I know some. But more than the people, I found the description of the life in the church, the parental strife, complicated interracial relationships...etc an accurate and compelling depiction of my world. It has more sex than I'd like it to, but the characters and the world make it a book you don't want to out down until finishing.
What a disappointing debut after reading her PACHINKO, a fabulous novel that has heart. This oneis rambling and reader has no interest in the protagonist. Instead, we seem to side with all the valuesshe eschews. Only interesting if you want to see how this author has grown immensely.
“Free Food†was the author’s first novel. Because I read Min Jin Lee’s second novel, Pachinko, first, I was very disappointed in “Free Food for Millionairesâ€. The protagonist was not sympathetic to the reader; I rarely cared if she would succeed or fail. The author & main characters are Korean Americans, but I do not think my critical opinion is based on a personal lack of cultural understanding. If anything, the author paints her characters with a broad sterotopical brush. Perhaps it was her purpose to present us with Korean personalities she thought we might recognize: stoic angry Asian father, long suffering closed/mouth wives, 30-something ivy leaguers discarding there ideals along with their culture in pursuit of money & sex (lots of sex). And some of this might have worked if the characters ultimately seemed aware of their actions. Yes, there is conflict, but very little resolution. “Free Food...†is an acceptable summer read. But if you are interested in a glimpse, however small, into Korea and her people, skip this book and go right to Min Jin Lee’s second work, “Pachinkoâ€.
I was excited to read this book, based on the reviews it already received, but I just could not get into this book! The novel begins in such a violent way, it caught me off guard and I really feel it went downhill from there. The book jumps around characters and events with no real resolution in sight. I really wanted to like the main character, but found her selfish and self deprecating. After struggling to reach the end, it just ENDS! There is no real ending, I was left wondering why I wasted so much time to reach an ending that doesn't resolve any real conflict for any of the many characters the author attempted to create and evolve. I'm glad I bought this while it was on sale for $1.99, because its hardly even worth that in my opinion.
Simply Wonderful! I was sad it ended.5. starsI wish there was more. Any possibility there could be a second book to follow?
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