Author Talk! Jimin Han & Nancy Jooyoun Kim @ ELOREA

We're so excited to welcome authors Jimin Han and Nancy Jooyoun Kim to ELOREA in SoHo to celebrate their novels Dreamt I Found You and The Last Story of Mina Lee. Both works are featured in ELOREA's reading room which was created to celebrate the launch of their ABOUT LOVE fragrance collection.

About this Event:

We're so excited to welcome you to this upcoming author talk!

• A book signing will follow the conversation.

• Additional copies of Dreamt I Found You by Jimin Han and The Last Story of Mina Lee by Nancy Jooyoun Kim will be available for purchase. We will have a limited number of Nancy's other novel, What We Keep to Ourselves, and Jimin's other novels, A Small Revolution and The Apology for sale.

• Doors open at 5:00pm, programming will begin at 5:30pm

• Community Guidelines and Rules

  • You commit to treating everyone with respect and care

  • Stay home if you feel sick!

About Dreamt I Found You

From the critically acclaimed author of The Apology comes a contemporary retelling of Korea’s Romeo & Juliet, as the cousin of the star-crossed lovers helps them avoid a tragic fate. 

When Dahee Shin was nine years old, she made a promise to protect her favorite cousin, Channing, who has always been like a sister to her. Now, at thirty, Dahee has found herself in a Korean American community in a New England beach town, once more running to the rescue of her debt-ridden relative. Ever the idealist, Channing—who has spent her life haunted by the tragic story of Chunhyang and Mongryong, Korea’s parallel Romeo & Juliet—has fallen in love with Minjae Oh, all the while fending off the advances of powerful, manipulative Kent Cho, a local politician. As Channing and Minjae’s romance blossoms, and as Kent’s suspicion and obsession grow, Dahee begins to realize that it may be up to her to make sure her cousin and beloved escape Chunhyang and Mongryong’s doomed end.   

For fans of Hello Beautiful, Dreamt I Found You is a wondrous, tender retelling of Korea’s most classic love story, steeped in the travails of a rigid class system, the power of premonition, and shot through with Korean folklore and magic.

About The Last Story of Mina Lee

A REESE’S BOOK CLUB PICK

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

Riveting and unconventional, The Last Story of Mina Lee traces the far-reaching consequences of secrets in the lives of a Korean immigrant mother and her daughter

Margot Lee's mother is ignoring her calls. Margot can’t understand why, until she makes a surprise trip home to Koreatown, LA, and finds that her mother has suspiciously died. Determined to discover the truth, Margot unravels her single mother’s past as a Korean War orphan and an undocumented immigrant, only to realize how little she truly knew about her mother, Mina.

Thirty years earlier, Mina Lee steps off a plane to take a chance on a new life in America. Stacking shelves at a Korean grocery store, the last thing she expects is to fall in love. But that moment leads to repercussions for Mina that echo through the decades, leading up to the truth of what happened the night of her death.

Told through the intimate lens of a mother and daughter who have struggled all their lives to understand each other, The Last Story of Mina Lee is a powerful and exquisitely woven debut novel that explores identity, family, secrets, and what it truly means to belong.

About the Authors

Nancy Jooyoun Kim is the New York Times bestselling author of What We Kept to Ourselves and The Last Story of Mina Lee. Born and raised in Los Angeles, she now lives in the Bay Area and teaches creative writing at the University of San Francisco and Saint Mary’s College of California.

Jimin Han was born in Seoul, South Korea, and grew up in Providence, Rhode Island; Dayton, Ohio; and Jamestown, New York. She is the author of A Small Revolution and The Apology. She has written for NPR’s Weekend America, Poets and Writers Magazine, Catapult Magazine, Platypus Press, and Citric Acid Literary Journal, among others. She teaches at Sarah Lawrence College and Pace University, as well as at community writing centers. She lives outside New York City.

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