Free Food for Millionaires
Casey Han'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. Free Food for Millionaires offers up a fresh...
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Casey Han'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. Free Food for Millionaires offers up a fresh exploration of the complex layers we inhabit both in society and within ourselves and examines maintaining one's identity within changing communities.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780446699853 (0446699853)
Publish date: April 9th 2008
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Pages no: 592
Edition language: English
Category:
Novels,
Literature,
Cultural,
Book Club,
Realistic Fiction,
Adult,
Contemporary,
Asian Literature,
Asia,
New York,
Womens Fiction,
Chick Lit
Times top-10 book of the year, NY Times editor's choice, booksense, etc.; fairly clearly an establishment book which has gone through the publicity grinder / machine and no doubt helped by its setting in pure sex-in-the-city manhattan, with the final added hook that the protagonist is a korean yalie...
Fabulous! All of the characters have so much depth. It's an amazing story--very well written.
I was excited to read this book, having heard such fantastic reviews. It was a fairly well-paced book, with a good plot, and real characters. Those with a korean background (like myself) will probably relate better to the characters and the mindsets of the different generations than someone who is n...
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