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Podcast: Book Friends Forever
Episode: American Han by Lisa Lee Read by Katharine Chin
Description: “American Han shook me to my core. Gutting in its quietest moments and heartbreakingly familiar in its loudest conflicts, this book is a gripping portrait of the cost of assimilation into American life.”
—Muriel Leung, Lambda award-winning author of How to Fall in Love in a Time of Unnameable Disaster
Growing up in the San Francisco Bay Area in the 1980s, Jane Kim and her brother, Kevin, dutifully embodied the model minority myth as their parents demanded: both stellar tennis players and academically gifted, they worked hard to make their parents proud. Jane went on to law school. Kevin came close...