The Last Story of Mina Lee is the debut novel of Nancy Jooyoun Kim. The story is good and the characters are interesting; however the plot is predictable and slow.
Mina Lee is of Korean ancestry, and she lives in Los Angele's Korea-town She has an only child, a daughter, named Margot. Margot lives in Seattle and doesn't see our mother very often. Margot is embarrassed by her mother. She wishes she would act more American.
Margot has planned a trip to L.A. to visit with her mother. She gets a ride with her pal, Miguel. When they arrive at Mina Lee's apartment, they find her dead on the floor with a head injury. Is it an accident, or is it murder?
Margot investigates her mother's death and the clues lead her to discover her mother in ways she never knew her.
I wish this novel would have been more. It had so much potential to be an excellent novel. I rated it as 3/5 stars (good).
“She wondered how many women had been trapped - in terrible marriages, terrible jobs, unbearable circumstances - simply because the world hadn't been designed to allow them to thrive on their own. Their decisions would always be scrutinized by the lives at which they were able to sacrifice themselves, their bodies, their pleasures and desires. A woman who imagined her own way out would always be ostracized for her own strength.” - The Last Story of Mina Lee
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