Far from it: in her new book, The Cooked Seed, which picks up where Red Azalea left off, describing the vicissitudes of her life after moving to America aged 27, she has gone further. 'I wanted to dissect myself, do an autopsy on my flaws and my greed and my loneliness. I wrote about my rape, my divorce. I even wrote about the sex tape that I relied on for personal comfort.’ As a new immigrant in Chicago, starved of any sort of relationship, Min rented sex tapes from the local video store. 'Have you ever read any immigrant story by a woman who revealed that? That was my only human contact.’