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Riveting and unconventional, The Last Story of Mina Lee traces the
far-reaching consequences of secrets in the lives of a Korean immigrant
mother and her daughter
Margot Lee's mother is ignoring her calls. Margot can't understand why,
until she makes a surprise trip home to Koreatown, LA, and finds that
her mother has suspiciously died. Determined to discover the truth,
Margot unravels her single mother's past as a Korean War orphan and an
undocumented immigrant, only to realize how little she truly knew about
her mother, Mina.
Thirty years earlier, Mina Lee steps off a plane to take a chance on a
new life in America. Stacking shelves at a Korean grocery store, the
last thing she expects is to fall in love. But that moment leads to
repercussions for Mina that echo through the decades, leading up to the
truth of what happened the night of her death.
Told through the intimate lens of a mother and daughter who have
struggled all their lives to understand each other, The Last Story of
Mina Lee is a powerful and exquisitely woven debut novel that explores
identity, family, secrets, and what it truly means to belong.
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"Painful, joyous... A story that cries out to be told." --Los Angeles
Times
"Kim is a brilliant new voice in American fiction." --Alexander Chee,
author of How to Write an Autobiographical Novel
"Suspenseful and deeply felt." --Chloe Benjamin, author of The
Immortalists
