My Korean Deli: Risking It All for a Convenience Store is a sweet, funny, and at times alarming memoir of a preppy editor who buys a Brooklyn deli with his Korean in-laws. Classes and cultures collide as everyone involved struggle to run a business, sustain family relationships and figure out how to live in America, whether one's ancestors arrived on the Mayflower or on KAL.

Ben Ryder Howe has written for New York, The Atlantic Monthly, and Outside, and his work has been selected for Best American Travel Writing. He is a former senior editor of The Paris Review.

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