Free Food for Millionaires

Description:

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.

subjects: Literature,  Women college graduates,  Children of immigrants,  Fiction,  Korean Americans,  New york (n.y.), fiction,  Asian americans, fiction,  Fiction, family life,  Fiction, general,  American literature,  Fiction, family life, general,  Self-perception in women,  Américains d'origine coréenne,  Romans, nouvelles,  Enfants d'immigrants,  Perception de soi chez la femme,  General,  Korean American families -- New York (State) -- New York -- Fiction,  Children of immigrants -- Fiction,  Social classes -- New York (State) -- New York -- Fiction,  Korean American families,  Manners and customs,  Race relations,  Social classes,  New York (N.Y.) -- Social life and customs -- Fiction,  New York (N.Y.) -- Race relations -- Fiction,  New York (State) -- New York,  Identity (Psychology)