The Last Story of Mina Lee by Nancy Jooyoun Kim sets up what should be a powerful story of the immigrant experience and an emotional story of the relationship between a mother and a daughter. The story has amazing potential but somehow manages to stay at a distance from its themes. It feels like the story is told not lived and the emotion of the story remains just out of reach.

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Reviewed for Netgalley and a publisher's blog tour.

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Didn't expect it to be a mystery but it was so much more. A look at what it's like to feel like an alien in your own country and what motivates some people who come here legally or not legally to act and live the way they do so they can stay here. Wasn't a light hearted read by any means but did like it for a look at what it's like to be an Asian American or an Asian here illegally. Two main characters well developed.

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I really enjoyed it tho I wish they had told at the end what happened to her grandmother.

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