PositiveBookPageAt first glance, Min Jin Lee\'s debut epic could be mistaken for an Amy Tan-inspired Asian American tries to balance two worlds family drama. But upon closer inspection, Lee gently but firmly pushes the genre in a more modern direction, and in the process manages to create her own niche in the literary world ... Lee\'s background, as a Korean-American who went to Yale and lives in New York City, igives her writing with an unmistakable authenticity. She writes the inside language and nuances of ambitious Columbia business school grads as fluently as she writes of the longings of an undereducated, middle-aged Korean mother and choral singer afraid of her own talent ... not a novel to be entered into lightly, but the rewards are well worth the time. It\'s not a day trip; it\'s an immersion into a fully realized and beautifully written world.
