MY KOREAN DELI: Risking It All for a Convenience Store by Ben Ryder Howe

The author, an editor at Paris Review, agrees to his wife’s wish to buy a convenience store for her Korean immigrant parents.  Now deeply in debt, Howe and his wife live in the basement of his in-laws’ Staten Island home;  he keeps his day job on the Upper East Side while working the night shift at the Brooklyn store.  An often uproarious account of the customers and his own dilemmas, the book is also concerned with family relationships and success.