![]() Informed by Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai's family history, The Mountains Sing is a fictionalized remembrance of a turbulent 20th-century Việt Nam. One of my good friends describes fiction as the "weight room for empathy." No matter your background or heritage, this book will hit you in your feels. Who am I? What do I owe myself? Are always good questions to ask.īook News & Features Memories Of Tragedy Stay With Author Nguyen Phan Que Mai Casey wants to follow her passion, as soon as she finds it, but would that dishonor her parents? She is indifferent to her parents' American dream for heretic (graduate school, marriage to a Korean) and focused on her own desires, which she hasn't yet begun to realize. Her brains and her parents' many sacrifices have allowed Casey to graduate from Princeton - but now what? She's not rich, but she's had a rich girl's education, and she has rich friends. It's a story about Casey Han, a bright daughter of Korean immigrants, who has grown up in New York tied to her parents' cultural apron strings. ![]() Free Food For Millionaires is Min Jin Lee's ( Pachinko) debut novel. ![]()
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