When you quit your job as a lawyer, people would ask where's your book? That must have been brutal. You had to inhabit this identity in order to accomplish what you needed to. How did you go about doing that? I think I've always been a person who lives in her mind and in her imagination.
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.