Free Food for Millionaires Hit Bookstands

By Kim Ji-soo

Staff Reporter

It's like skipping a stone on water ― a small stone seems to merely tag the surface of the water but it creates ripples. That was how reading ``Free Food for Millionaires'' by Lee Min-jin felt.

The novel, which is about a Korean immigrant's life in the United States, brings to mind another Korean-American writer Chang-rae Lee. Both hit hard especially after one puts the books down. But while the ripples caused by Chang-rae Lee's novel are bigger and wider, Lee seems gentler as she prods readers to think or rethink about love, family, young pride and life choices.

The book, which was published to great success in the United States in 2007, is now available in Korean. The New York Times book review said Lee's debut novel,