American Hagwon
by Min Jin Lee
From the author of Pachinko: one Korean family's journey from Seoul to Sydney to Southern California.
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When a betrayal and the 1997 Asian financial crisis upend their comfortable middle-class life, a Korean family leaves Seoul — first for Sydney, then for Southern California — and tries to build a future for their children.
At the heart of the novel is Korea's intense focus on education, and the hagwons: the private cram schools where children, and adults, take lessons. It is Min Jin Lee's third novel about Korea and the Korean diaspora, after Free Food for Millionaires and Pachinko.
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