{"id":367517,"date":"2026-10-08T03:34:55","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T03:34:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/367517\/"},"modified":"2026-10-08T03:34:55","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T03:34:55","slug":"meng-joins-author-to-launch-new-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/367517\/","title":{"rendered":"Meng Joins Author To Launch New Book"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. Rep. Grace Meng (D-Queens) joined acclaimed bestselling author and Queens native, Min Jin Lee, as the novelist launched her new book in New York City. Born in South Korea,\u00a0Lee\u00a0and her family immigrated to the United States in 1976 when she was seven years old. Her parents settled in Elmhurst \u2013 in Meng\u2019s congressional district \u2013 which is where Lee was raised.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Meng congratulated Lee on the release of her new book, American Hagwon,\u00a0during the book launch and conversation event with the author, which took place in Manhattan.\u00a0Lee has publicly spoken about immigrating to Elmhurst, borrowing books from the public library in Elmhurst and attending school in Elmhurst and Maspeth.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-214337 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/CAY0b1Sg-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1085\" height=\"2560\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Congresswoman Meng and her husband Wayne with author Min Jin Lee.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"U.S. Rep. Grace Meng (D-Queens) joined acclaimed bestselling author and Queens native, Min Jin Lee, as the novelist&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":367518,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-367517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=367517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367517\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/367518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=367517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=367517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=367517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}