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Born and raised in Los Angeles, Nancy Zhu Yun Kim is a graduate of UCLA and the University of Washington, Seattle.

Her essays in short fiction have appeared in the Los Angeles Review of Books, Gwarnica, NPR, PRI, Selected Shorts, The Rumpus, Electric Literature, Asian American Writers Workshop, the margins, the offing, and elsewhere. The last story of Mina Lee is her first novel. Hi. Hi. How are you? Good. How are you? It's so nice to meet you, you. Nice to meet you too. Well, thanks for coming on moms don't have time to read books. I am really excited to talk about your book and your life and all the rest. So thanks for coming on. Thank you so much for having me. It's an honor. So Nancy, can you tell people who haven't read your book yet, which is probably most people because it's just coming out, what your book is about and what inspired you to write it?

The last story of Mina Lee takes place in Los Angeles's Koreatown.

It's about a complex mother-daughter relationship between a Korean immigrant single mother named

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