What Min Jin Lee Wants Us to See | The New Yorker
The author of “Pachinko” and “Free Food for Millionaires” discusses her research process, her memories of arriving in America, and why she reads the Bible before writing.
Save this story Save this story The author Min Jin Lee lives in a four-story town house in Harlem that she and her husband purchased in 2012. A creaking wooden staircase runs up its spine, leading to Lee’s research library, on the top floor, where she works. It is a compact, sunlit room, with a couch, a pair of desks, and a wall of floor-to-ceiling bookshelves. Before my visit, on a recent Monday morning, she had made sure to tidy up the room, but had left out a stack of books—some research materials for her third novel, “American Hagwon.” (The Korean word hagwon refers to a type of private en
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