When you were 16, a friend had a blood drive and after you gave blood, the Red Cross sent you a letter that stated, please don't ever give blood again because you are a chronic hepatitis B carrier. "I've always lived with this sense that if this is my last day, I will live it with integrity," she says. She was told by Dr. Adrian Rubin of Yale New Haven Hospital that he would likely get liver cancer in your twenties or thirties. Instead, when you were 30, you had liver cirrhosis and you received interferon and were able to get better.
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.