Margaret Lee

May 27, 2024 | memoirland.substack.com | Jennifer Stewart |Amitava Kumar |Christina Myers |Margaret Lee

Welcome to Memoir Land—a newsletter edited by , now featuring four verticals:Memoir Monday, a weekly curation of the best personal essays from around the web brought to you by Narratively, The Rumpus,  Granta, Guernica, Oldster Magazine, Literary Hub, Orion Magazine, The Walrus, and Electric Literature. Below is this week’s curation. First Person Singular, featuring original personal essays. Recently I published “The Bargain” by . The Lit Lab, featuring interviews and essays on craft and publishing.

Apr 24, 2024 | washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com | Margaret Lee

How many generations does it take for a family to become American? Many children of immigrants feel a rootlessness that their parents, anchored in the old country, don’t. In Starry Field: A Memoir of Lost History,journalist Margaret Juhae Lee finds connection to her Korean roots by uncovering the history of her paternal grandfather, Lee Chul Ha, who died at 27 after spending four years as a political prisoner during Japan’s colonial rule of Korea.

Mar 9, 2024 | bookreporter.com | Margaret Lee

In STARRY FIELD, Margaret Juhae Lee offers an international yet intimate account of a family member whose life would have been lost in a sea of forgetfulness were it not for her diligent dedication to discovering the truth --- a truth that brings honor and hope to those remaining. The daughter of Korean immigrants, a young Lee never felt that she was where she wanted or needed to be.

Mar 6, 2024 | largeheartedboy.com | Margaret Lee

In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates in some way to their recently published book. Previous contributors include Jesmyn Ward, Lauren Groff, Bret Easton Ellis, Celeste Ng, T.C. Boyle, Dana Spiotta, Amy Bloom, Aimee Bender, Roxane Gay, and many others. Margaret Juhae Lee’sStarry Field weaves family history and memory into an unforgettable memoir.

Nov 8, 2023 | therumpus.net | Margaret Lee

Jami Nakamura Lin’s The Night Parade: A Speculative Memoir (Mariner Books, 2023) is a genre-bending book that uses mythology from Lin’s ancestral background to frame her personal story and that of her Taiwanese/Japanese family. She deftly combines memoir writing, ancient legends, and in-depth research in often surprising ways to examine her own history with bipolar disorder and the death of her father when she was an adult.