How long does it take to read Free Food for Millionaires?
Free Food for Millionaires by Min Jin Lee takes about 10 hours 53 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 10 hours 53 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 2007. 594 pages, about 163,350 words.
22 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 18 hours 9 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 10 hours 53 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 6 hours 48 minutes |
The page count is the median across 22 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Casey Han's four years at Princeton gave her many things, "But no job and a number of bad habits." Casey's parents, who live in Queens, are Korean immigrants working in a dry cleaner, desperately trying to hold on to their culture and their identity. Their daughter, on the other hand, has entered into rarified American society via scholarships. But after graduation, Casey sees the reality of having expensive habits without the means to sustain them. As she navigates Manhattan, we see her life and the lives around her, culminating in a portrait of New York City and its world of haves and have-nots. FREE FOOD FOR MILLIONAIRES offers up a fresh exploration of the complex layers we inhabit both in society and within ourselves. Inspired by 19th century novels such as Vanity Fair and Middlemarch, Min Jin Lee examines maintaining one's identity within changing communities in what is her remarkably assured debut.
Subjects: Women college graduates, Children of immigrants, Fiction, Korean Americans, New york (n.y.), fiction, Asian americans, fiction
