The release date for the English version of 'The Last Story of Mina Lee' by
Nancy Jooyoun Kim is Sep 2020. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
Mina, Margot Lee's mother, is not picking up her phone. Margot, 26, doesn't know anything about it until she goes to her old Koreatown, Los Angeles apartment and discovers that her mother has passed very mysteriously. After learning how little Margot actually knew about her mother, the finding causes her to journey back in time and piece together the shaky invisible threads that kept her single mother's life together as an undocumented immigrant and orphan from the Korean War.
Mina's account of her first year in Los Angeles, navigating the opportunities and dangers of the American concept of reinvention, is linked into Margot's current search. Mina never expects to fall in love, even though she's barely making ends meet stocking shelves at a Korean grocery shop. However, that love tale starts a chain of events that would affect others for years to come, eventually revealing the truth about what really happened the night she passed away.