In American Hagwon, the bestselling author of Pachinko, Min Jin Lee, explores family, education, ambition and the long shadow of economic upheaval, set between Seoul, Sydney and California. Louise Kennedy's Stations offers a tough and deeply felt Irish family story, while Catherine Chidgey's The Starving Bride turns hunger into a strange gothic performance. Kate and Cassie are joined this time by regulars, novelist and academic Professor Tony Birch and critic and literary judge Beejay Silcox. And, as we count down to the Top 100 Australian Books, Frank Moorhouse's biographer Matthew Lamb reveals his top three.
Books featured
Min Jin Lee, American Hagwon, Fourth Estate
Louise Kennedy, Stations, Bloomsbury Circus
Catherine Chidgey, The Starving Bride, Penguin
Matthew Lamb's Top 100 picks
Forty-Seventeen (1988) by Frank Moorhouse
Tourmaline (1963) by Randolph Stow
Writer Reader Critic (1992) by Dorothy Green
Other books mentioned
Janet McCalman, Struggletown
Peter Carey, The Fat Man in History
The Women's Weekly Birthday Cake Book
Leonie Norrington, Djawundil Maymuru, Merrkiyawuy Ganambarr-Stubbs and Djawa Burarrwanga, A Piece of Red Cloth
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