Got this book from Kinokuniya while visiting Sydney - love that bookshop with its mind boggling range and imported titles I never see in the run of the mill bookshops. I found this book interesting in its exploration of race, class, money etc, about a Korean girl from a working class immigrant family. She has been well educated through scholarships and acquired expensive habits, but is ambivalent about success, career, love. She has a wealthy mentor in a highly successful Korean businesswoman but again is highly ambivalent in this relationship. I found her ambivalence, self-sabotage and stubbornness irritating, but the story was an interesting read anyway.
Sunday, September 14, 2008
Free Food for Millionaires - Min Jin Lee
Got this book from Kinokuniya while visiting Sydney - love that bookshop with its mind boggling range and imported titles I never see in the run of the mill bookshops. I found this book interesting in its exploration of race, class, money etc, about a Korean girl from a working class immigrant family. She has been well educated through scholarships and acquired expensive habits, but is ambivalent about success, career, love. She has a wealthy mentor in a highly successful Korean businesswoman but again is highly ambivalent in this relationship. I found her ambivalence, self-sabotage and stubbornness irritating, but the story was an interesting read anyway.
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