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My Korean Deli: Risking It All for a Convenience Store
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My Korean Deli: Risking It All for a Convenience Store reviews:
- Funny, Clever, Insightful
Loved this book. Fabulous prose; depth of character development. you do not have to be Korean or a WASP to understand how the residue of cultural legacy juxtaposed against our individual environments help us to envision our place in the world and come to just accept ourselves and embrace our familial dysfunction.
Could not place it down. aroused from sleep early to read it. looking forward to Ben Ryder Howe's next book or story.
My Korean Deli: Risking It All for a Convenience Store Book Description:
It starts with a gift, when Ben Ryder Howe's wife, the daughter of Korean immigrants, decides to repay her parents' self-sacrifice by buying them a store. Howe, an editor at the rarefied Paris Review, agrees to go along. Things soon become a lot more complicated. After the business struggles, Howe finds himself living in the basement of his in-laws' Staten Island home, commuting to the Paris Review offices in George Plimpton's Upper East Side townhouse by day, and heading to Brooklyn at night to slice cold cuts and peddle lottery tickets. My Korean Deli follows the store's tumultuous life span, and along the way paints the portrait of an extremely unlikely partnership between characters with shoots across society, from the Brooklyn streets 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 values, work, and....
My Korean Deli: Risking It All for a Convenience Store Book Editurial reviews:
In this laugh-out-loud funny memoir, Ben Ryder Howe, a burned out editor at the Paris Review, spends his days concealing his apathy from his eccentric boss (George Plimpton!), avoiding the short story slush pile, and anticipating the day he will move out of his in-laws’ Staten Island basement. When Ben’s wife insists they buy a deli for her mother, he is skeptical but somehow energized by the risk involved, envisioning himself behind the counter at a profitable little deli providing bohemian customers with gourmet groceries. Instead, he ricochets from the magazine by day to the struggling deli by night, where his regular customers drink beer in the aisles, his mother-in-law, the “Mike Tyson of Korean grandmothers,” squares off with Mr. Tortilla Chip, and his pistol-packing employee, Dwayne, conducts X-rated phone calls with his girlfriends while ringing up customers. Howe’s daily interactions with a unique cross-section of humanity and his self-deprecating humor infuse My Korean Deli with insight, hopefulness, and addictive entertainment.--Seira Wilson
My Korean Deli: Risking It All for a Convenience Store Book Details:
- Hardcover: 320 pages
- Publisher: Henry Holt and Co.; First Edition edition (March 1, 2011)
- Language: English
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