{"product_id":"9780805093438","title":"My Korean Deli Risking It All for a Convenience Store - Howe, Ben Ryder","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cu\u003eMy Korean Deli Risking It All for a Convenience Store\u003c\/u\u003e by Howe, Ben Ryder\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFormat: Hardcover with Dust Jacket\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePublished by Henry Holt and Company, 2011\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis warm and funny tale of an earnest preppy editor finding himself trapped behind the counter of a Brooklyn convenience store is about family, culture and identity in an age of discombobulation.\u003c\/b\u003e\n\nIt 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 identity.\n\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003csmall\u003eProduct image is for illustration purposes only and may not be an exact representation of the product offered for sale.\u003c\/small\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Henry Holt and Company, 2011","offers":[{"title":"My Korean Deli Risking It All for a Convenience Store \/ Very Good","offer_id":51935111676196,"sku":"9780805093438VG","price":8.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0714\/9951\/4148\/files\/public_ef2fd165-a590-482f-9835-89138004dfe9.jpg?v=1781791947","url":"https:\/\/brookingsbooks.com\/products\/9780805093438","provider":"Brookings Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}