AMERICAN HAGWON

Profoundly generous and humane DOUGLAS STUART Engrossing brilliantly imagined COLM TÓIBÍN Extraordinary TARA WESTOVER A novel I didn t want to end ROXANE GAYMin Jin Lee the acclaimed author of Pachinko returns with a breathtaking contemporary epic that follows one family as they reckon with personal dreams and familial duty John and Helen Koh and their three children Bo DH and Mido are building new lives in Korea when they find their worlds upended first by a terrible betrayal and then by the 1997 Asian financial crisis Striving to regain their footing the Kohs set out to do whatever it takes to provide for their children s futures They leave Seoul for Sydney and eventually settle in California where new opportunities open for the Koh children as the parents strangers in a strange land adjust to a difficult existence in which their qualifications mean little Their way forward is lit by the faith that education will lead the next generation to the success and security that have eluded their parents The Kohs their friends relatives and even their foes move in and out of each other s lives as they navigate love work fortune and fulfilment across the years But with each new sacrifice and fresh horizon larger questions begin to open up before the