Literary Fiction
A Korean family rebuilds after crisis and betrayal, chasing education and belonging from Seoul to California in a sweeping immigrant epic.
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A Korean family rebuilds after crisis and betrayal, chasing education and belonging from Seoul to California in a sweeping immigrant epic.
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At last, the National Book Award finalist and NYT bestselling author of Pachinko returns with a breathtaking contemporary epic: Min Jin Lee has written a masterpiece by turns sweeping and intimate, one that reckons with ambition and moderation, lust and loyalty, personal dreams and familial duty. In schools and churches, hotel rooms and nail salons, law firms and fried-fish shops; in cramped, dingy apartments and luxury, gated communities, the men, women, and children in American Hagwon struggle...
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Sexual content
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Adultery, seduction, and coercive sexual dynamics drive major conflicts
Violence & gore
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Corporal punishment of a child; a parent strikes a teenage daughter
Profanity
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Substance use
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LGBTQ+ Rep.
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Religious content
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Churches and pastors recur; faith frames duty and self-sacrifice
Magic & witchcraft
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No fantasy magic present
Occult / demonology
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No occult content present
Political content
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Central themes of immigration, class, education pressure, and racism
Self-harm / suicide
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Suicide themes amid grief, crisis, and family hardship
Abuse & suffering
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Child corporal punishment; false sexual-assault claim; coercion; racism
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