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Free Food for Millionaires

Min Jin Lee

3.9 AVERAGE

kfein09's review against another edition

4.25

dark emotional hopeful reflective slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

georgiepaige's review against another edition

4.5

medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

mhisrk's review against another edition

5.0

challenging emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

I downloaded this app after reading this book because I needed the world to know that I think that Min-Jin Lee is a genius of insurmountable proportions. Maybe it’s because I’m the mentally underachieving, unambitious, but realistically overachieving, and bad-with-finances daughter of South Asian immigrants, but I just GOT Casey. Listen, she’s not perfect. None of these characters are perfect—erring on the complicated in this beautifully vibrant and romantically realist novel that does not attempt to over-engineer itself with a non-linear cancelled realist plot (I have begun to dread those)—but I get it. They’re real people bogged down by the weight of expectation and propriety and it was so wonderful to read. I often tell people that no other author has made me love and attach myself to characters as well as Min-Jin Lee. For all of these characters flaws, I come to adore them.

adent86's review against another edition

DID NOT FINISH: 60%

Lost interest in what goes on with Casey and the supporting characters after reading halfway through the book. Kind of pieced together how everyone one ends up by skimming through some portions, but nothing interesting enough happens to where its worth reading to the very end. 3 stars.

zqreads's review against another edition

3.5

emotional sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

sdhb's review against another edition

3.0

This was my summer reading years ago. I had read a favorable review of it in a magazine, and was intrigued by the story (and not just because the central character's name is Casey). This was a very interesting glimpse into the struggles of meshing Korean culture into contemporary American life.

It is a story of Casey's post-Princeton life, in NYC, her jobs, her loves, her losses, her family. The best thing I can say about it is there was action from the first chapter, and the end of every chapter made me hungry to read more, to see what else would happen to the cast of characters (interestingly, one of the most boring characters, has some of the most action later in the book). The down side has to be the ending. I usually really get into a story, show or movie if I can relate to the main character (which is why I never liked Sex in the City-none of them were anything like me), I did enjoy this story, even though I felt that Casey was again, nothing like me. Really no direction, no plan for her life. And I was disappointed in how it ended. But you be the judge. It was still a page-turner.

aftbooks's review against another edition

5.0

I really was hesitant to try a second book from Min Jin Lee after loving Pachinko so deeply. With something so emotionally complex, devastating and spanning the depth of multiple generations with such profundity, I didn’t think it could compare. I loved Free Food For Millionaires and was immediately sucked back into the author’s world. It is unfair to compare the two works, as this book completely holds its own. I really didn’t want it to end, but also THE ENDING WAS SO ABRUPT!!! I am not sure how to feel about that but the entire way there was so fantastic that I can’t say anything disparaging. It felt like being kicked out of the story I was so immersed in, but it was also an interesting way to play it. I would have preferred the story to continue but the book is still 5 stars to me because of how flawless the entire story was.