| International Standard Book Number |
9781538752036
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| Dewey Decimal Classification Number |
813/.6 TnLvILS
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| Personal Name |
Lee, Min Jin, author.
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| Title Statement |
American hagwon : a novel / Min Jin Lee.
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| Imprint |
New York : Cardinal, 2026.
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| Physical Description |
656 pages ; 24 cm.
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| Summary, Etc. |
"In schools and churches, hotel rooms and nail salons, law firms and fried-fish shops; in cramped, dingy apartments and luxury, gated communities, the men, women, and children in American Hagwon struggle to find satisfaction and meaning in a world that seems to grow less forgiving with each passing year. Once comfortably middle class in Korea, John and Helen Koh and their three children--Bo, DH, and Mido--find their lives upended, first by a shocking betrayal by John's oldest friend, then by the 1997 Asian financial crisis. Desperately striving to regain their footing, they leave Seoul for Sydney and eventually settle in Southern California--where new vistas of opportunity open up for the children as their parents, strangers in a strange land, must adjust to a new life in which their experience and education mean little, and they set their sights on whatever it takes to provide for their children's futures. The Kohs, their friends, relatives, and even their foes move in and out of each other's lives as they navigate new courses across the years, always nursing the almost all-consuming faith that education will lead the next generation to success and security."-- Provided by publisher.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Immigrant families Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
American Dream Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Emigration and immigration Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Fiction/Literary
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Fiction/Coming of Age
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Fiction/Asian American & Pacific Islander
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Fiction/Family Life - Multigenerational
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Fiction/Immigration & Emigration
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Domestic fiction.
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