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A special limited-edition paperback of the stunning debut novel by the New York Times bestselling author of Pachinko, following a Korean-American daughter of first-generation immigrants who strives to join Manhattan's inner circle.
Features:
- Full cover with special effects
- Four-color stenciled edges
- Four-color quote sheet...
Published By Grand Central Publishing
Format Paperback
Number Of Pages 720
Publication Date 08/04/2026
ISBN 9781538784044
Dimensions 5.25 inches x 8.1 inches
New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice
NPR Fresh Air Top Ten Books of the Year
USA Today Top Ten Books of the Year
The Times (London) Top Ten Books of the Year
“Ambitious, accomplished, engrossing…as easy to devour as a nineteenth-century romance.”—New York Times
“Sensitive to the nuances of race and class…a book you finish feeling certain the lives inside will go on long after the final page.”—People
“Unfolds in New York in the 1990s with an energetic eventfulness and a sprawling cast that call to mind the literary classics of Victorian England…It would be remarkable if she had simply written a long novel that was as easy to devour as a nineteenth-century romance—packed with tales of flouted parental expectations, fluctuating female friendships and rivalries, ephemeral (and longer-lasting) romantic hopes and losses, and high-stakes career gambles. But Lee intensifies her drama by setting it against an unfamiliar backdrop: the tightly knit social world of Korean immigrants, whose children strive to blend into their American foreground without clashing with their distinctive background. It’s a feat of coordination and contrast that could kill a chameleon, but Lee pulls if off with conviction.”—New York Times Book Review
“This big, beguiling book has all the distinguishing marks of a great American novel…[a] remarkable writer.”—The Times (London)
“Could have been penned by Austen herself.”—Daily Mail
“Lee has updated the Victorian novel of progress to a postmodern, postfeminist world and imagined a character whose circumstances feel universal.”—Chicago Tribune
“An expansive story…draws the reader with likeably human, multidimensional characters and a subtly shifting, unpredictable plot.”—Washington Post
“It is no exaggeration to say that Lee’s debut deserves to mentioned in the same breath as Eliots’s great doorstopper [Middlemarch]. What is more, it is arguably even more fun.”—South China Morning Post
"Mesmerizing...Not since Jhumpa Lahiri's The Namesake has an author so exquisitely evoked what it's like to be an immigrant."—USA Today