My Korean Deli

Download or Read eBook My Korean Deli PDF written by BEN RYDER HOWE and published by Doubleday Canada. This book was released on 2011-03-01 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
My Korean Deli
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Publisher : Doubleday Canada
Total Pages : 321
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ISBN-10 : 9780307374776
ISBN-13 : 0307374777
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Book Synopsis My Korean Deli by : BEN RYDER HOWE

Book excerpt: This sweet and funny tale of a preppy literary editor buying a Brooklyn deli with his Korean in-laws is about family, class, culture clash, and the quest for authentic experiences in an increasingly unreal city. It starts with a simple gift, when Ben Ryder Howe's wife, the daughter of Korean immigrants, decides to repay her parents' self-sacrifice by buying them a store. Howe, an editor at the rarefied Paris Review, reluctantly agrees to go along. However, things soon become a lot more complicated. After the business struggles, Howe finds himself living in the basement of his in-laws' Staten Island home, commuting to the Paris Review offices in George Plimpton's Upper East Side townhouse by day, and heading to Brooklyn at night to slice cold cuts and peddle lottery tickets. The book follows the store's tumultuous lifespan, and along the way paints the portrait of an extremely unlikely partnership between characters across society, from the Brooklyn ghetto to Seoul to Puritan New England. Owning the deli becomes a transformative experience for everyone involved as they struggle to salvage the original gift — and the family — while sorting out issues of values, work and identity.


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