coolfoolmoon 's review for:

Pachinko by Min Jin Lee

4.25

emotional informative reflective tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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I liked the info in the back about how the story wasn’t inspired by the authors family, but by an amalgam of Korean Japanese people’s stories, because there are so so so many full sections of the book that feel so very American, speaking as a person who is African American. Despite not being set in America the type of discrimination is the same.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Bullying, Cancer, Death, Domestic abuse, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Suicide, Xenophobia, Stalking, Car accident, Death of parent, Colonisation, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Confinement, Emotional abuse, Pedophilia, Terminal illness, Police brutality, Religious bigotry, Abortion

Minor: Ableism, Child death, Torture, Fire/Fire injury, War, Pandemic/Epidemic