Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Coming Home Again | 1995 | Chang-rae Lee | Buy |
Chang-rae Lee’s non-fiction output includes Coming Home Again, a 1995 essay originally published in The New Yorker. The piece describes Lee’s experience cooking elaborate Korean meals with his mother during her battle with cancer. It became one of his most widely read works and was later adapted into a 2019 film of the same name.
The essay shows the same attention to sensory detail and emotional nuance that marks Lee’s fiction, using food and cooking as a way to explore family bonds, cultural heritage, and loss.