Wednesday, May 13, 2026

Q&A with Lisa Lee

From my Q&A with Lisa Lee, author of American Han: A Novel:
How much work does your title do to take readers into the story?

The title is doing a lot of work in that American han is what the book is about. But many readers won’t know what han is or what I mean by “American” han, and since I don’t define or use the word anywhere in the book other than in the title and epigraph, for some readers it might take reading the whole book and maybe a little research to understand the meaning.

What's in a name?

I chose the name Jane Kim for my narrator because ...[read on]
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Q&A with Lisa Lee.

--Marshal Zeringue