heartswhisper 's review for:

Pachinko by Min Jin Lee

5.0

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"and yet we played on, because we had hope that we might be the lucky ones. how could you get angry at the ones who wanted to be in the game? etsuko had failed in this important way—she had not taught her children to hope, to believe in the perhaps-absurd possibility that they might win. pachinko was a foolish game, but life was not."

this is one of those times where i wish i could put the right words here how much i loved this book. pachinko is so hauntingly beautiful, and im pretty sure the characters here will stay with me for a very long time.