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SUMMARY:Min Jin Lee in conversation with Mitchell S. Jackson
DESCRIPTION:Literary Arts and The Reser are thrilled to present Min Jin L
 ee\\, author of the beloved novels Pachinko (an international bestselle
 r and National Book Award finalist) and Free Food for Millionaires\\, f
 or a conversation about her new book\\, American Hagwon.  \\n America
 n Hagwon is both “a classic in the making and a novel distinctly of ou
 r moment\\, one that helps us find firmer ground in a world unmoored from
  a most basic concern: how do we care for one another?” \\nMin Jin Le
 e will be joined in conversation by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and
  author Mitchell S. Jackson.\\nAbout the book:\\nIn schools and churches\
 \, hotel rooms and nail salons\\, law firms and fried-fish shops\\; in cr
 amped\\, dingy apartments and luxury\\, gated communities\\, the men\\, w
 omen\\, and children in American Hagwon struggle to find satisfaction a
 nd meaning in a world that seems to grow less forgiving with each passing
  year. Once comfortably middle class in Korea\\, John and Helen Koh and t
 heir three children—Bo\\, DH\\, and Mido—find their lives upended\\, 
 first by a shocking betrayal by John’s oldest friend\\, then by the 199
 7 Asian financial crisis.\\nDesperately striving to regain their footing\
 \, they leave Seoul for Sydney and eventually settle in Southern Californ
 ia—where new vistas of opportunity open up for the children as their pa
 rents\\, strangers in a strange land\\, must adjust to a new life in whic
 h their experience and education mean little\\, and they set their sights
  on whatever it takes to provide for their children’s futures. The Kohs
 \\, their friends\\, relatives\\, and even their foes move in and out of 
 each other’s lives as they navigate new courses across the years\\, alw
 ays nursing the almost all-consuming faith that education will lead the n
 ext generation to success and security.\\nIn American Hagwon\\, Min Jin 
 Lee has crafted an unforgettable\\, panoramic novel where the smallest of
  gestures can have enormous repercussions\\, where the bonds of family an
 d of memory twist and fray but rarely break\\, and where willful self-sac
 rifice—for the benefit of loved ones and even strangers—is a kind of 
 prayer.\\n&nbsp\\;\\n&nbsp\\;\\n&nbsp\\;\\n&nbsp\\;\\n&nbsp\\;\\n&nbsp\\;
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 eed the support of event sponsors.\\nIf you or your company is interested
  in sponsorship\\, please email development@literary-arts.org.\\nhttps:/
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