So many novelists who work on Min Jin Lee’s themes would be making a comment — social or political — often a very predictable comment. Their work would be called urgent, relevant, and, God bless them, important. Alas, novelists so often have predictable beliefs. Not Lee. She’s a church-going, Bible-reading, Korean-American Christian, who was a corporate lawyer before she quit to spend eleven years learning how to write fiction while living with chronic liver disease. She calls herself a late bloomer. Her first novel,
"we’re all really millionaires because we are given this grace, this unmerited favor of gifts and talents. So every character has a kind of extraordinary gift. Nobody’s actually poor if you really know what your gifts are"
Seriously? When she burns all her millions I'll believe her.
Pachinko, Min Jin Lee
"we’re all really millionaires because we are given this grace, this unmerited favor of gifts and talents. So every character has a kind of extraordinary gift. Nobody’s actually poor if you really know what your gifts are"
Seriously? When she burns all her millions I'll believe her.