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My Korean Deli: Risking It All for a Convenience Store
My Korean Deli Risking It All for a Convenience Store Author:Ben Ryder Howe This warm and funny tale of a preppy editor buying a Brooklyn deli with his Korean in-laws explores family, culture clash, and the quest for authentic experiences. — It starts with a gift, when Ben Ryder Howe's wife, the daughter of Korean immigrants, decides to repay her mother's sacrifice by buying her a convenience store. ... more »Things soon become more complicated, however. After the business struggles, Howe finds himself waylaid in the basement of his in-laws' Staten Island home, commuting to a job at the Paris Review office in George Plimpton's Upper East Side townhouse by day, and at night heading to Brooklyn to slice cold cuts and peddle lottery tickets.
The book follows the store's tumultuous life span and along the way paints the portrait of an unlikely partnership between characters with shoots across society, from the streets of Brooklyn 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 social class, intermarriage, and how to live in an America that is increasingly foreign to everyone.« less
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