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SUMMARY:Min Jin Lee: American Hagwon
LOCATION:Rio Theatre\, 1205 Soquel Ave\, Santa Cruz\, CA 95062
DESCRIPTION:Cosponsored by The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz"A nove
 l of extraordinary ambition. Min Jin Lee has constructed a world so rich a
 nd intricate that you forget you're reading—you're simply living alongsi
 de the Kohs as they navigate betrayal\, displacement\, and the shifting pr
 omises of a better future. A stunning achievement."— Tara Westover\, aut
 hor of EducatedThe National Book Award finalist and New York Times bestsel
 ling author of Pachinko returns with a breathtaking contemporary epic: a m
 asterpiece by turns sweeping and intimate\, that reckons with ambition and
  moderation\, lust and loyalty\, personal dreams and familial duty.In Amer
 ican Hagwon\, Min Jin Lee has crafted an unforgettable\, panoramic novel w
 here the smallest of gestures can have enormous repercussions\, where the 
 bonds of family and of memory twist and fray but rarely break\, and where 
 willful self-sacrifice--for the benefit of loved ones and even strangers--
 is a kind of prayer. About the Author:Min Jin Lee is the author of the no
 vels Free Food for Millionaires and Pachinko\, a finalist for the National
  Book Award\, runner-up for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize\, and a New Yo
 rk Times "100 Best Books of the Century." She serves as the New York State
  Author Laureate from 2025 through 2027. She is the 2024 recipient of The 
 Fitzgerald Prize for Literary Excellence. Lee has received the Manhae Gran
 d Prize for Literature\, the Bucheon Diaspora Literary Award\, and the Sam
 sung Happiness for Tomorrow Award for Creativity from South Korea. She is 
 the recipient of fellowships in Fiction from the Guggenheim Foundation\, t
 he Harvard Radcliffe Institute\, and the New York Foundation for the Arts.
  Lee is an inductee of the New York Foundation for the Arts Hall of Fame a
 nd the New York State Writers Hall of Fame. She lives in Harlem with her f
 amily. TICKET PACKAGES:1 ticket + 1 book: $45.112 tickets + 1 book: $50.4
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