Min Jin Lee

Reviews | May 04, 2008

New York Times Paperback Row

“This accomplished first novel, the coming-of-age story of a Princeton-educated Korean-American woman making her way in New York City in the 1990s, recalls the Victorian novels its heroine devours. Our reviewer, Liesl Schillinger, described it as ‘packed with tales of flouted parental expectations, fluctuating female friendships and rivalries, ... romantic hopes and losses, and high-stakes career gambles.’”

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Reviews | April 27, 2008

Bay Area Authors’ Books Among Best of ‘07

The Five-Forty-Five to Cannes (Crown) by Tess Uriza Holthe; Free Food for Millionaires (Warner) by Min Jin Lee; The Gathering (Black Cat/Grove) by Anne ...

Reviews | April 27, 2008

Psychiatric Services, A Journal of the American Psychiatric Association

In her first novel, Free Food for Millionaires, Min Jin Lee largely succeeds in unraveling the story of postcollege, Korean immigrant Casey Han, who is still challenged by her family traditions while striving for acceptance and personal fulfillment in the largely assimilated world of New York high finance. As the main character’s life unfolds, Lee masterfully reveals the fallible interpersonal relationships that define Han’s struggle. She also manages to tell the story from multiple perspectives, allowing the characters richness and authenticity that is often missing in the single point of view.

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Reviews | April 27, 2008

Entertainment Weekly

Free Food for Millionaires is different from any book I’ve ever read — a big, juicy, commercial Korean-American coming-of-age novel, one that could spawn a satisfying miniseries, and one that definitely belongs in this summer’s beach bag.

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Reviews | April 25, 2008

Angry Asian Man

Here’s an interview with Min Jin Lee from Newsweek: Forget the Comparisons. ... And here’s Min Jin Lee on NPR’s Tell Me More: Author Min Jin Lee: ‘Free Food ...

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Reviews | April 25, 2008

Latestbooks.org

Free Food for Millionaires by Min Jin Lee gives us an insight into the lives ... Min Jin Lee has received the 2004 Narrative prize for her short story “Axis ...

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Reviews | April 25, 2008

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Reviews | April 25, 2008

Northwestasianweekly.com

Weighing in at a mammoth 560 pages, Min Jin Lee’s Free Food for Millionaires is ...

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Reviews | April 25, 2008

Politics-Prose.com

... Min Jin Lee, in her first novel, paints a vast New York landscape that brings to mind ...

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Reviews | April 25, 2008

Historywire.com

As the face of America becomes stunningly diverse, the need for competent cultural translators grows apace…Now, in her first novel, Korean-American writer Min Jin Lee helps us understand Koreans as they grapple to grab the first rung of the economic ladder.

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Reviews | April 25, 2008

Notebookmagazine.com

Min Jin Lee. Hutchinson. New Yorker Casey Han is fresh out of university and ... This is Min Jin Lee’s first novel and it is an engrossing read about love ...

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Reviews | April 25, 2008

Narrativemagazine.com

Free Food for Millionaires was Reviewed by Lacy Crawford in Narrative Magazine in the First and Second Looks section (requires registration). ...

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Reviews | April 25, 2008

Bookreporter.com

Min Jin Lee gets into the heads of a dry cleaner operator and a Julliard alumnus, an aging bookstore owner and a stockbroker on Wall Street. ...

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Reviews | April 02, 2008

USA Today

Critic’s pick: Free Food for Millionaires, by Min Jin Lee (Grand Central, $13.99). USA TODAY’s Carol Memmott says this “vastly ambitious” and “stirring” ...

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Reviews | January 31, 2008

Eugeneweekly.com

Casey, the fictional character at the heart of Min Jin Lee’s Free Food for Millionaires, can’t quite figure out how to fit her upper-class tastes into the world of her parents, Korean immigrants who work for a dry cleaning chain.

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