Excerpt: 'Free Food for Millionaires'  Cover Image: 'Free Food
for Millionaires'  Free Food for Millionaires  by Min Jin Lee
Hardcover, 576 pages  List Price: $24.99   Competence can be a
curse.  As a capable young woman, Casey Han felt compelled to
choose respectability and success. But it was glamour and
insight that she craved. A Korean immigrant who'd grown up in a
dim, bluecollar neighborhood in Queens, she'd hoped for a
bright, glittering life beyond the workhorse struggles of her
parents, who managed a Manhattan dry cleaner.  Casey was
unusually tall for a Korean, nearly five feet eight, slender,
and self-conscious about what she wore. She kept her black hair
shoulder length, fastidiously powdered her nose, and wore
winecolored lipstick without variation. To save money, she wore
her eyeglasses at home, but outside she wore contact lenses to
correct her nearsightedness. She did not believe she was pretty
but felt she had something—some sort of workable sex appeal. She
admired feminine modesty and looke