The Last Story of Mina Lee

26 year old Margot Lee makes the trek from Seattle to see her mom in Los Angeles after she stops returning her calls. She discovers her dead in the apartment and begins to realize how little she really knows of her. Margot feels like a hand-waving chaos engine careening into a potential murder mystery, chasing down an elusive father, and uncovering family secrets. So basically K-drama in novel form.

This is contrasted as we hear Margot's mother's story. Mina Lee arrived in Los Angeles in the summer of ‘87 - utterly alone and bereft. She finds a job stocking the shelves at a supermarket and begins to find a measure of hope. Mina's story holds all the answers to the questions Margot suddenly finds herself asking, and maybe that makes for an unfair storytelling balance but I just wanted more of Mina's story. It's an Asian-American K-Drama - a specific difference I would have loved to have seen explored further.