MixedCleveland Review of BooksThough more than 600 pages long, the book is easy reading, if at times clunky and cliché ... Offers a rich portrait of Orange County but a comparatively thin one of its inhabitants’ presumably fraught relationships to it ... Stilted dialogue pervades American Hagwon. It can read less like that of real, first-generation immigrants and more like a Korean text translated bluntly into English ... It becomes a neat drama.
