The Cost of a Better Future: On Min Jin Lee’s “American Hagwon” - Chicago Review of Books

Min Jin Lee’s ‘American Hagwon’ Takes on Education’s Impossible Promise

The author reflects on the need to depoliticize education and what inspired her to focus on Korean for-profit learning centers in her new novel.

The Cost of a Better Future: On Min Jin Lee’s “American Hagwon” - Chicago Review of Books

Education is supposed to be a path toward a better life. But what happens when the path becomes so competitive, expensive, and unforgiving that the pursuit of that better life begins to consume the life itself? In American Hagwon, Min Jin Lee uses the world of private education to explore that question over fifteen years,…

The education of Min Jin Lee

In her latest book, the novelist tackles dislocation and familial sacrifice to ask: Is elite schooling always a passport to a good life?

"I give up my life for these books": why Min Jin Lee's 'American Hagwon' is the epic novel of our time

The literary superstar Min Jin Lee, beloved by Barack Obama and the Queen, returns with an epic new novel exploring family, belonging and the cost of striving for a better future

In her new novel, Min Jin Lee asks what makes a good education — and a good life - The Boston Globe

‘American Hagwon,’ her third novel about the Korean diaspora, is an ambitious story of one family’s struggle to make it.

American Hagwon, the epic novel that explores the heavy cost of raising winners

Min Jin Lee’s long-awaited book third book exposes the sacrifices and betrayals that drive family ambition