When you were 16, a friend had a blood drive and 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 the sense that if this is my last day, I will live it with integrity," she says. She was diagnosed with liver cirrhosis at 30 but received interferon and got 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.