"I think back to particular librarians when I was in elementary and middle school. My parents were immigrants, and my mother didn’t really speak English. Basically, I was raised in the library. Those librarians and a few teachers in high school and college and even graduate school gave me not just knowledge but also encouragement and, sometimes, a reality check."
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On the idea of mentorship and how that figures in his book My Year Abroad in "BookPage: Interview with Chang-rae Lee" in BookPage (February 2021)
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