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THE LAST STORY OF MINA LEE - NANCY JOOYOUN KIM ...

A REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'I loved this book so much' REESE
WITHERSPOON 'Suspenseful and deeply felt...raises questions about the reality of the American
dream and illuminates stories that often go untold  in life as well as fiction' CHLOE BENJAMIN
bestselling author of The Immortalists Reminiscent of Celeste Ng's page-turning meditations on
identity  this searing mother-daughter story explores the diverse and unsettling realities of
being an immigrant in America. Margot Lee's mother is ignoring her calls. Margot cannot
understand why  until she makes a surprise trip home to Koreatown  LA. What she finds there
makes her realise how little she knows about her mother  Mina. Thirty years earlier  Mina Lee
steps off a plane to take a chance on a new life in America. Stacking shelves at a Korean
grocery store  the last thing she expects is to fall in love. But that moment will have
shattering consequences for Mina  and everything she left behind in Seoul. Through the intimate
lens of a mother and daughter who have struggled all their lives to understand each other 
Margot and Mina's story unravels the unspoken secrets that can drive two people apart - or
perhaps bind them closer together. --- 'Carefully illuminates the two sides of the silence
between a Korean immigrant mother and her Korean American daughter  a silence only too familiar
to many of us - and emerges with a stunningly powerful and original novel' ALEXANDER CHEE 
bestselling author of How to Write an Autobiographical Novel

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