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This nice and funny story of any preppy editor buying a Brooklyn deli with his Korean in-laws is approximately family, culture clash, and the search for authentic experiences. It starts with a gift. When Ben Ryder Howe's partner, the little princess of Korean immigrants, makes a decision to settle her parents' self-sacrifice by buying them a store, Howe, an editor at the rarefied Paris Review, agrees to complement. Things soon become far more complicated. After the business struggles, Howe discovers himself moving into the cellar of his in-laws' Staten Island home, commuting to the Paris Review offices in George Plimpton's Upper East Aspect townhouse by day, and going to Brooklyn to slice cold reductions and peddle lottery seat tickets by night. My Korean Deli comes after the store's tumultuous life time, and along the way paints the family portrait of an exceptionally unlikely partnership between personas with shoots across contemporary society, from the Brooklyn avenues to Seoul to Puritan New Britain. Getting the deli becomes a transformative experience for everybody engaged as they battle to salvage the initial gift-and the family-while sorting out issues of worth, work, and identity.