Chang-rae Lee on MY YEAR ABROAD
\u201cAnd fiction is all about obstacles. It's all about misapprehension, misunderstanding, lack of information, lack of connection, and the problems that come up, arise out of those things.\u201d Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Chang-rae Lee\u2019s most recent novel,\xa0My Year Abroad, is now out in paperback and it's unlike anything he\u2019s written before. Chang-rae joins us on the show to talk about homecomings and hunger, the limitless imagination of a new generation of immigrants, his 20-year-old narrator and the sense of play at the heart of this new book, what\u2019s on the syllabus for his Asian American autobiography class at Stanford, and much more.
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Featured books:\xa0My Year Abroad,\xa0Native Speaker\xa0and\xa0Aloft, all by Chang-rae Lee.
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