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Free Food for Millionaires
Min Jin Lee
Grand Central Publishing
June 2007
On Sale: May 22, 2007
576 pages
ISBN: 0446581089
EAN: 9780446581080
Hardcover
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Casey Han's four years at Princeton gave her many things,
"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 on to their culture and
their identity. Their daughter, on the other hand, has
entered into rarified American society via scholarships. But
after graduation, Casey sees the reality of having expensive
habits without the means to sustain them. As she navigates
Manhattan, we see her life and the lives around her,
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 one's identity within changing
communities in what is her remarkably assured debut.
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