Pachinko

Min Jin Lee 2017

Devastation Rating

Emotionally Ruined
family historical literary fiction injustice loss

Our Take

Four generations of a Korean family in Japan, and every generation inherits the shame of the one before. Lee writes the weight of diaspora as something passed through blood — the way a single act of survival in one generation becomes the defining wound of the next. Enormous and completely merciless.

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