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Free Food for
Millionaires. Random House, 2007.
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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