Live from New York with Author Min Jin Lee
Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso
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The Responsibility of a Writer Is to Excavate the Experience of the People Who Produced Him
"I'm seeing so much cynicism in 19-year-olds, right? And of course, with American Hoguan, which is about education," she says. "The more I learn, the more I think, oh, this is why the kids are so cynical." She recalls her family's first cross-Atlantic flight from South Korea to Alaska and how they were all dressed up because they thought they might never see each other again.
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