"I wouldn't let my family go through that experience. So we went," she says of her parents' decision to immigrate in 1976. "My father is a kind of person that even today at the age of 88, if we had some sort of crisis ... he would somehow figure out how to survive." Her dad taught himself to read English by running errands for American soldiers.
The author of the award-winning novels “Pachinko” and “Free Food for Millionaires,” Min Jin Lee, discusses her remarkable career and the long journey and intention behind her Korean diaspora novels.