Casey Han, a Korean American Princeton graduate raised in Queens, struggles to find her footing in 1990s Manhattan among wealthy friends, Wall Street ambition, immigrant family duty, and a fraught love life. The novel follows her and the people around her across New York's Korean church and finance worlds.
Books mentioned in Free Food for Millionaires (12)
Middlemarch by George Eliot: “reread Middlemarch or began another volume of Trollope borrowed”
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte: “copies of Middlemarch and Wuthering Heights that she read and reread for comfort”
Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser: “A Sony Dream Machine clock-radio sat on top of a copy of Sister Carrie.”
King Lear by William Shakespeare: “Jay explained the plot of King Lear, which was playing at Lincoln Center”
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald: ““Daisy Buchanan,” he said, referring to the coldhearted girl from The Great Gatsby.”
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë: “He handed her a copy of Jane Eyre”
Hamlet by William Shakespeare: “Casey had read only Hamlet and Romeo and Juliet.”
Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare: “Casey had read only Hamlet and Romeo and Juliet.”
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy: “Last year, you read Anna Karenina for a long time.”
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert: ““I love Madame Bovary and Cousin Bette,” she said finally”
Cousin Bette by Honoré de Balzac: ““I love Madame Bovary and Cousin Bette,” she said finally”
Sonnets by William Shakespeare: “Well, it’s based on a set of poems by Shakespeare. Sonnets.”