Books on Monday
Min Jin Lee’s Free Food for Millionaires appears to have come out some time in June. It was reviewed in the Book Review at the beginning of July. I suppose the publishers were hoping that the novel would be carried off on thousands of August vacations and digested as a thoughtful beach book. It happens to be a serious bourgeois novel with a strong (but utterly intelligible) Korean accent, and I think that I’d have enjoyed it more in cooler weather. If I were to reduce my judgment of the novel to one sentence, it would be this: I look forward to reading Ms Lee’s next book a little more than I look forward to re-reading this one. It’s that good.