Pachinko grabbed me with its first sentence and held me until the end, and I staggered back into the world four days later absolutely transformed. “I’ll recommend it to everyone.” I’m a fast reader, yes, but I abandon books frequently, intersperse slow books with fast ones, return to something I’ve abandoned only if it still lingers months later. “Just sobbed through the ending,” I wrote. “I already know I’m going to be devastated,” I wrote. On May 12th, 2021, I texted my friend to tell her I had started Pachinko that morning. And then I graduated, I moved, and I didn’t think about it again until the pandemic hit and I slowly started working through my “Books to Read” backlog. I was in my second year of graduate school, too busy to consider reading a hefty historical novel for fun. That was 2017, just a few months after the book was published. The first time someone recommended that I read Min Jin Lee’s Pachinko, I added it to my “Books to Read” list and promptly forgot about it.
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