Maureen Corrigan
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first heard Nov 2024
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Min Jin Lee's new novel, American Hagwon, has been nearly 10 years in the making.
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If it had taken 20, I'd still wonder how she held all these stories, these lives, such pain and love in her imagination for the time it took to find the words to embody them on the page.
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A simultaneously sweeping but intimate novel about the complexities of immigration, the fragile promise of America, and the purpose of education—
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American Hagwon is also a classic page-turner, populated by characters who are hard to leave behind at the end of 600-plus pages.
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It's an overwhelming reading experience, one that appeals to the head as well as the heart.
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The Ko family is at the center of this teeming narrative, which spans the years 1992 to 2007.
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When we meet them, John and Helen Koh have just returned to Seoul, South Korea from six years in Sydney, Australia, where John, a senior manager for a Korean conglomerate, had been stationed.
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Before Australia, the Kohs were in the U.S.
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All three of their now-adolescent children, Bo, DH, and Mido, were born in Paramus, New Jersey.
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But given their on-the-move family life, Korea doesn't exactly feel like home anymore, and 13-year-old daughter Mido, the shy youngest child, is having an especially hard time in school.
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Korea, however, will turn out to be yet another temporary post thanks to a cowardly betrayal by John's oldest friend and superior at his company.
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Taehoon Shin, we're told, was a man who was clear in his professional goals and muddy in his private life.
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Shin, a married man and exuberant cheater, has become besotted with a beautiful, sexually adventurous young employee named Danbi.
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Because Donby is pressuring him to leave his wife, Shin orders John to set up Donby to fail at the company and then fire her.
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John, a man of integrity, objects, but finally must obey his best friend's orders.
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That's when Donby, a femme fatale to the max, turns the tables and sets John up for a fall.
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The novel soon jumps to 1997, when the Asian financial crisis wreaks more havoc.
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Most of the Ko family, along with a multitude of other fully realized characters, wind up in Southern California.
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Even Shin and Danbi eventually land there.
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