A review by evaorbit
Pachinko by Min Jin Lee

4.5

I was so captivated by this book in the short time that I read it. When I was reading it, my mind never wandered off. I felt entranced and didn’t even realize it until I was done reading! Omnipresent narrators don’t usually work for me, but here it was so intentional and well done that I really appreciated what it added to the storytelling. I loved seeing the interwoven generations, the ways they overlapped, the things they left unsaid. It was beautiful. I was a little less interested in the story in the 3rd quarter but I thought it tied up nicely. The theme of individual lives being up to chance but everyone still having hope for a better life, even as history churns on, will stick with me for a while.