Pachinko - APSI Summer 2020 Book Club: July
APSI is hosting a book club in Summer 2020.
Our book for July is ~Pachinko~ by Min Jin Lee.
Register to join the discussion on 7/21 at 3pm: bit.ly/APSI-2020BookClub-July. Registration is required to participate in the discussion.
About the book:A saga about four generations of a poor Korean immigrant family fight to control their destiny in 20th-century Japan, exiled from their home.
PACHINKO follows one Korean family through the generations, beginning in early 1900s Korea with Sunja, the prized daughter of a poor yet proud family, whose unplanned pregnancy threatens to shame them all. Deserted by her lover, Sunja is saved when a young tubercular minister offers to marry and bring her to Japan.
So begins a sweeping saga of an exceptional family in exile from its homeland and caught in the indifferent arc of history. Through desperate struggles and hard-won triumphs, its members are bound together by deep roots as they face enduring questions of faith, family, and identity.
Pachinko was a 2017 finalist for the National Book Award for fiction.