Free Food For Millionaires

Set in 1990s New York, this sweeping debut novel follows Casey Han, a young Korean-American Princeton graduate determined to claim a place among Manhattan’s elite. As she navigates high finance, complicated romances, and the expectations of her immigrant family, Casey confronts the tensions between ambition and loyalty, wealth and identity, freedom and belonging. Min Jin Lee explores the Korean-American community with nuance and emotional depth, examining class, assimilation, faith, and the cost of striving in a society obsessed with status. Rich in social detail and sharply observed, this is both an intimate coming-of-age story and a panoramic portrait of New York at the turn of the millennium. Readers who admired Lee’s later novel *Pachinko* will appreciate the same keen insight into family, culture, and the immigrant experience.