Min Jin Lee, the acclaimed, bestselling author of Pachinko, returns with American Hagwon, a modern classic about ambition and love, family and finding home. Min Jin joined us live at Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church to talk about education and ambition, the 19th century social novel, compressed modernity, and trying to be a good person in an anxious world with host Miwa Messer.

This episode of Poured Over was hosted by Miwa Messer and mixed by Harry Liang.

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Featured Books:
American Hagwon by Min Jin Lee
Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
Free Food for Millionaires by Min Jin Lee
Middlemarch by George Eliot
Can You Forgive Her? By Anthony Trollope
Bleak House by Charles Dickens
The Risk of Compressed Modernity by Chang Kyung-Sup
Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu