Pachinko

Min Jin Lee 2017

Devastation Rating

Emotionally Ruined
family historical literary fiction injustice

Our Take

Four generations of a Korean family in Japan, each inheriting the discrimination their parents could not defeat. Lee writes history as a family album — the choices that echo, the pride that costs, the love that persists despite everything a country does to deny it.

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