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searchandrescueteam 's review for:
Pachinko
by Min Jin Lee
challenging
dark
emotional
funny
informative
reflective
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
This is a broad narrative following a family across huge social and political change: colonisation, war, systemic and personal discrimination. It is quite harrowing at times. I found the idolisation of USA by some of the characters quite grating (esp during a Trump presidency). And the narrator's voice is too high and immature for my ear.
Regardless I read to the end, and appreciated the depiction of the characters' lives, moving, irritating (on their behalf), sad. The injustice of much of their experience is raw.
Regardless I read to the end, and appreciated the depiction of the characters' lives, moving, irritating (on their behalf), sad. The injustice of much of their experience is raw.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Bullying, Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Homophobia, Misogyny, Racial slurs, Racism, Self harm, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Grief, Religious bigotry, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Colonisation, War, Deportation