Barnes & Noble - Union Square welcomes Min Jin Lee on Monday, September 28th at 7pm at Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church for a discussion of AMERICAN HAGWON, a moving and powerful epic of a modern family struggling to educate their children and survive in a fast-changing world circumscribed by global economic shocks.

She will be joined in conversation by Miwa Messer for a live-taping of the Poured Over Podcast.

PLEASE NOTE: The event will be held at Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church, with entrance at the corner of Fifth Avenue and 55thStreet.

Photo credit: ART SCHREIBER

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To make this event safe and enjoyable for all attendees, please read the guidelines below before purchasing a ticket so that you know what to expect on the day of the event.

TICKETING INFORMATION

Single Ticket Admission - $39.19 (Admission for one person + one pre-signed copy of AMERICAN HAGWON): **LIMITED QUANTITY AVAILABLE**:

A ticket PER PERSON includes:

One pre-signed copy of AMERICAN HAGWON.

Admission for one person into the event space with Min Jin Lee at Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church. Seating is first-come, first-served.

Ticket holders will be admitted into the event beginning at 6pm on the day of the event.

Please have a copy of your ticket available either printed our or on your phone for check-in.
All books will be pre-signed. There will not be a meet and greet with the author.
This event will be held off-site at the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church, located at 7 W 55thSt, New York, NY 10019.

GUIDELINES

Due to health and safety and space limitations, those without a ticket will not be permitted into the event space.

Please note that Eventbrite is the only authorized dealer for this event. Each person must have a ticket to enter.

All event guidelines are subject to change.

The exact time at which the event ends will be determined on the night of the event. To avoid disappointment, we strongly advise you to arrive on time for the event.

Barnes & Noble may cancel this event at any time with or without notice to the ticket holders.

If you have any additional questions, please call the store directly at: 212-253-0810.

REFUNDS

Attendees can receive refunds up to 1 day (24 hours) before the 7 PM event start time.
If you are unable to attend the event, Barnes & Noble - Union Square will hold your book for seven days after the event. Please contact the store to arrange your pickup.

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ABOUT AMERICAN HAGWON:

The National Book Award finalist and New York Times bestselling author of Pachinko returns with a breathtaking contemporary epic: a masterpiece by turns sweeping and intimate, that reckons with ambition and moderation, lust and loyalty, personal dreams and familial duty.

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.

In American Hagwon, Min Jin Lee has crafted an unforgettable, panoramic novel where 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 Min Jin Lee:

Min Jin Lee is the author of the novels Free Food for Millionaires and Pachinko, a finalist for the National Book Award, runner-up for the Dayton Literary Peace Price, and a New York Times "100 Best Books of the Century."

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