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The National Book Award finalist and New York Times bestselling author of Pachinko returns with a breathtaking contemporary epic: a masterpiece by turns sweeping and intimate, that reckons with ambition and moderation, lust and loyalty, personal dreams and familial duty.
"Min Jin Lee brings grand ambition, fierce heart, and the tenderest hope to a novel I didn't want to end." Roxane Gay, bestselling hunger of Bad Feminist and Hunger
In schools and churches, hotel rooms and nail salons, law firms and friedfish shops; in cramped, dingy apartments and luxury, gated communities, the men, women, and children in American Hagwon struggle to find satisfaction and 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 their three childrenBo, DH, and Midofind their lives upended, first by a shocking betrayal by John's oldest friend, then by the 1997 Asian financial crisis.
Desperately striving to regain their footing, they leave Seoul for Sydney and eventually settle in Southern Californiawhere new vistas of opportunity open up for the children as their parents, strangers in a strange land, must adjust to a new life in which 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, always nursing the almost allconsuming faith that education will lead the next generation to success and security.
In 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 and of memory twist and fray but rarely break, and where willful selfsacrificefor the benefit of loved ones and even strangersis a kind of prayer.
"An immersive, engrossing novel ... this is panorama told in brilliant detail." Colm Toibin, bestselling author of Long Island and Brooklyn
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