About this Event
Each ticket ($35 + fees) includes event admission, a copy of American Hagwon, and a donation to the Cuyahoga County Public Library Foundation.
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FAQs
Additional books will be available for purchase courtesy of Mac’s Backs – Books on Coventry.
For questions about accessibility or to request accommodations for individuals with hearing, visual or mobility impairments, please email [email protected].
All ticket purchases are non-refundable. If you have purchased a ticket and can no longer attend, email [email protected] by the event date to arrange book pickup at the CCPL branch of your choice.
Questions? Email us at [email protected].
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About the author:
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 Prize, and a New York Times “100 Best Books of the Century.” She serves as the New York State Author Laureate from 2025 through 2027. She is the 2024 recipient of The Fitzgerald Prize for Literary Excellence. Lee has received the Manhae Grand Prize for Literature, the Bucheon Diaspora Literary Award, and the Samsung Happiness for Tomorrow Award for Creativity from South Korea. She is the recipient of fellowships in Fiction from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Harvard Radcliffe Institute, and the New York Foundation for the Arts. Lee is an inductee of the New York Foundation for the Arts Hall of Fame and the New York State Writers Hall of Fame. She lives in Harlem with her family.
In AMERICAN HAGWON, Lee has crafted an incandescent novel where even the smallest of gestures can have enormous repercussions, where the ties of family twist and fray but rarely part, where lust and ambition battle obligation, and where willful self-sacrifice—for the benefit of loved ones and strangers, even—is a kind of prayer.
Through her three masterful novels—part of a planned quartet on the Korean diaspora—Lee gives shape to history’s seismic shifts, refracting generational change through characters you can’t help but root for. AMERICAN HAGWON is both a classic in the making and a novel distinctly of our moment, one that helps us find firmer ground in a world unmoored from a most basic concern: how do we care for one another?
Event venue & nearby stays
Parma-Snow Branch of Cuyahoga County Public Library, 2121 Snow Road, Parma, United States
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