A review by hekate24
Pachinko by Min Jin Lee

4.0

This reminded me a little of Ann Patchett's Commonwealth, even though it didn't have the non-chronological structure. What they do have in common is a tendency to relay the big important life-changing events matter-of-factly, while the bulk of the prose is concerned with the daily life stuff that occurs around those events. This book deals heavily with survival and identity and what those things mean for each subsequent generation.