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BLR Book Talk: Marie Myung-Ok Lee with Doris W. Cheng and Danielle Ofri

BLR Book Talk: Marie Myung-Ok Lee with Doris W. Cheng and Danielle Ofri

Tue Mar 14, 2023 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM EDT

Online, YouTube

BLR Book Talk: Marie Myung-Ok Lee with Doris W. Cheng and Danielle Ofri

Tue Mar 14, 2023 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM EDT

Online, YouTube

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“The Evening Hero is a beautiful, lush, moving story of family, of Korean and American history, of the legacy of war, and of the trauma of displacement. With great wit and humanity, it skewers the medical-industrial complex and the deep inequity of contemporary America. But most of all this novel is a tender, complex, vivid portrait of Yungman, the indelible Evening Hero.” —DANA SPIOTTA

Marie Myung-Ok Lee --the acclaimed Korean-American writer-- will join BLR editors Doris W. Cheng and Danielle Ofri for a fascinating conversation about medicine, immigration, rural America, North Korea, family, and history.

Presented in collaboration with the Asian American Writers' Workshop

You can purchase The Evening Hero on BLR's Bookshop page. A portion of your purchase will support BLR.

Read more about BLR and find copies of the journal at BLReview.org.

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Marie Myung-Ok Lee is an acclaimed Korean-American writer whose stories and essays have been published in The Atlantic, The New York Times, Slate, Salon, Guernica, and The Guardian, among others. She was the first Fulbright Scholar to Korea in creative writing and has received many honors for her work, including an O. Henry honorable mention, the Best Book Award from the Friends of American Writers, and a Rhode Island State Council on the Arts fiction fellowship and is a current New York Foundation for the Arts Fiction Fellow.

She has been a Yaddo and MacDowell Colony fellow and has served as a judge for the National Book Award and the PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award. In addition, Ms. Lee is a founder of the Asian American Writers’ Workshop and was an Our Word Writer in Residence for the Columbia MFA program.

Lee is the author of the novel Somebody’s Daughter and the young adult novel, Finding my Voice.  Her newest novel, The Evening Hero, has just been published. Toggling between the past and the present, Korea and America, Evening Hero is a sweeping, moving, darkly comic novel about a man looking back at his life and asking big questions about what is lost and what is gained when immigrants leave home for new shores. https://marielee.net/

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Purchase The Evening Hero on BLR's Bookshop page and a portion of will support BLR.

Read more about BLR and find copies of the journal at BLReview.org.

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Doris W. Cheng is assistant fiction editor at BLR. An immigrant Taiwanese American fiction writer who writes frequently about family, race, and identity, her most recent book is Earthling (Word West Press, 2021). www.doriswcheng.com/

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Danielle Ofri is editor-in-chief of BLR, and a primary care doctor at Bellevue Hospital. Her writings appear in the The New Yorker and the New York Times. Her newest book is When We Do Harm, a Doctor Confronts Medical Error. www.danielleofri.com


The Asian American Writers' Workshop is dedicated to publishing and amplifying Asian American literary culture. Since its founding in 1991, it has worked to cultivate a radically inclusive community of Asian and Asian diasporic writers and readers to mobilize for a more just future.

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Praise for The Evening Hero:

“This precise, watchful novel reveals the loneliness of the immigrant experience, even when cloaked in outward success… a novel about healers and healing, about unflashy, quiet heroism…[with] lyrical, lush, deeply felt prose… a soulful, melodic, rhapsodic novel.”—THE NEW YORK TIMES

“The novel also elucidates with remarkable feeling how war reverberates through a person’s lifetime—their body, mind, and memories—no matter how far in the past it may seem. This story is filled with as much heartache and healing as it is historical significance.” —KIRKUS REVIEWS

"An ambitious story charting the travails of an elderly immigrant doctor...Lee offers touching details...fans of immigrant stories will appreciate Lee’s labor of love."—PUBLISHERS WEEKLY

“Marie Myung-Ok Lee's The Evening Hero is a poignant story of a Korean immigrant father's heartbreaking belief in the myth of this country, capitalism, meritocracy and his disillusionment. By turns satirical and profound, The Evening Hero is a moving and captivating read.” —CATHY PARK HONG, New York Times bestselling author of Minor Feelings

"The Evening Hero is at once a hilarious, lacerating look at the American for-profit healthcare system and a profoundly moving examination of the long-term effects of war, trauma, and displacement on individuals, families, and cultures. I will never forget Marie Myung-Ok Lee’s evening hero, Dr. Yungman Kwak." —ANN PACKER, New York Times bestselling author of The Children’s Crusade

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