Min Jin Lee
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Did you ever solicit any other opinions besides yours and your husband's?
Oh, yeah.
I finally got an agent who I don't have anymore.
This very nice young person who decided, I'll take a shot at you.
And she sent it out and it was rejected everywhere.
Absolutely everywhere.
I have the letters.
No one said it was for them.
I mean, not a single publisher.
And she must have sent it out to at least 20 places.
And I'm so glad it wasn't published.
Now I see what happens if you have a terrible first publication.
Like, I really understand what that means.
So now I think, oh, I'm really glad that didn't happen.
And it's okay that I was not an early success.
Although, of course, I have to tell you that between the years of 1995 and...
2006, every year I really felt more and more like I've made a very big mistake.
After Revival of the Senses, you wrote the book Motherland, which was a precursor to Pachinko.
But you stated that that was garbage.