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# Free Food for Millionaires Kindle Edition

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    Every bit as good as Pachinko
  

*by L***A on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on April 18, 2022*

Writing: 5/5 Characters: 5/5 Plot: 4/5Casey Han — the daughter of Korean immigrants in Queens — craves a wealthy lifestyle she cannot afford, having been exposed to such while on a scholarship to Princeton.  She craves “beauty and the illusion of a better life.”  Casey balances pride, deeply embedded family traditions, and her emerging sense of self as she struggles to grow up and be the person she is slowly determining that she wants to be.  While we follow Casey from graduation through the next five (or so) years, we are also treated to the developing stories of women who are important to her: her mother, a mentor, an acquaintance who rescues her and turns into a close friend.  Rather than following a narrative arc, this book seems to follow a Life Arc — twisting and turning with sometimes rapid and surprising (to us and to Casey) shifts.  The first novel by the author of Pachinko, you’ll recognize the style and treatment, while this book focuses on a Korean-American family and Pachinko is focused on 20th century Korea.Although only covering a few years, this book felt epic because of its size and incredible depth.  The characters are far too detailed and deeply introspective to even hint at stereotypes.  Psychological analysis, philosophical musings, and cultural context (somehow never the same for any two people) help move the inner story along while the external story is utterly unpredictable.The prose is beautiful, detailed, and rich. I love the way the author repeatedly and seamlessly contrasts the inner deliberations of each character with how his or her behavior appears to others.  We are led through the minutiae of multiple lives that rarely go in the expected direction, but make do with the many, realistic tangents that comprise a life (regardless of any planning!). I appreciated the many domains that were brought to life by Casey’s experiences: investment banking and trading, millinery and fashion, church and faith, weddings, antiquarian books, and probably several others that I can no longer remember.There were so many good quotes, but I listened to most of it as an audio book while driving and couldn’t write down a single one. :-(

### ⭐ 







  
  
    A class-anxious book
  

*by A***R on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on June 20, 2021*

After enduring the silliness of the book halfway through (where I stopped), now's my chance to be caustic.The book's biggest contradiction and fallacy is the heroine Casey Han, whose personal maturation was the whole stake of the book, and who should have led us through the complex journey of being true to oneself in a hive of self-glorifying, self-justifying Ivy-grads, wallstreet pricks, real-estate moguls, loaded divorcees and what not. What we get instead is Casey, who hates these people not because they are empty and cocky, but because she burns with jealousy--she wants to be them so badly yet can't bring herself to become a good hardworking ladder-climber due to pride. In this way Casey is the true snob, more so than all the others combined: designer dresses and pearls are all she wants, but she doesn't want to admit it, and doesn't want to be seen as working for it. If the auhor had meant Casey's obsession with high fashion as a metaphor for the heroine's craving for beauty and "armor" against judgmental society (her "wonder woman cuffs,") I find the metaphor hypocritical and toxic: it presumes that these stuff are objectively beautiful rather than what they truly are, status symbols; and that you need such stuff to feel confident as a young Asian woman (not to be mistaken as a nanny, the book says, an anxiety which the white-passing Virginia is not subject to), when in fact you only need them if you are actively seeking acceptance in the world of snobs. It's not that rich people just happen to be monopolizing the fine things, as the book forcedly contends; fine things exist and stand for the riches. The book reads as one long whining that everybody deserves luxury goods (esp. Casey because she honed taste for these things working as a sales girl or whatever) and it's just unfair that you need money to access them. What makes Casey any different from the truck-load of yuppies that fill the book if she wants the same things for the same reason? You either have depth, or you don't; you can't embrace materialism as obsequiously as Casey does and soliloquize about being different and noble, now that's really bad taste. The character growth is a deadend when the character is a truly superficial person who believes in nothing except looks and a childish variety of agnosticism. The only thing barring her from full yuppy transformation is not genuine renunciation or critique of the human condition and its potential harmfulness, but a juvenile shame about being caught by others as trying and not being born into it. Because Casey's only problem is not being born into royalty, eventually it is not something that can be fixed. All of Casey's cynicism and bitterness ring empty because there is not a thing which she deeply believes in and tries to protect at all cost.I'm very disappointed in the book as I had big expectations coming from a similar background as Casey. As a middle-class kid who got through prep school and Ivy with scholarship I literally cannot avoid the classmate-turned-yuppies everywhere, hard as I try. I'm so sick of their sorry asses chasing me down for a lunch (my polite reluctance ignored) and seeking my approval that they are not just a sell-out, their inner life is somehow rich too and they've got it all. It is indeed difficult to keep your own ground in such a world, where everyone is pouncing at any opportunity to size you down and can't seem to leave the ones secure in their own worlds alone. That's unfortunately the way things are. But the book grossly over-simplifies the elite education by ignoring a whole class of people who fight against the pressure to cave. It's a pity that genuine intellectual curiosity has no place in this book, for example Virginia's master's in art history in Italy is degraded as a two-year sexcapade for the rich. Coincidentally Ella's degree is also in art history, this old notion of humanities as finishing school major sounds extremely outdated and philistine. Too bad that class anxiety is not an object of keen analysis and examination in this book, rather, the book itself is a case of class anxiety and consumes other good insights that might have been. Characters don't need to be perfect, but the book's inability to laugh at itself and the characters' weird self-rightuousness despite all their faults make them disagreeable.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    Surprising but Very Satisfying
  

*by P***O on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 18, 2022*

After Pachinko - the depth and breadth of generations; history politics, and power - Free Food for Millionaires seemed totally on the surface with its ordinary, smaller themes of women’s lives. At first.At several points in the narrative I wondered where the story was going, but I needn’t have worried. It found its place perfectly; by the end all the pieces fell together like a well-constructed hat (which was the creative expression of the main protagonist). As an aspiring writer, the craft & skill evident in Min Jin Lee’s writing taught me a lot about how to write a complex story from many different perspectives; as an avid reader, her story had me enthralled. I read it compulsively, unable to stop even when I didn’t have time to read more.I highly recommend it.

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