Grab your lunch and join us for a review of Min Jin Lee's "Pachinko," reviewed by J. Rex Burnett, director of the East Asia Institute and associate director of the Confucius Institute at OU-Tulsa.
Sponsored by Friends of the Tulsa City-County Libraries. For adults.
In this finalist for the National Book Award, four generations of a poor Korean immigrant family fight to control their destiny in 20th-century Japan. When teenaged Sunja discovers she is pregnant—and that her wealthy lover is married—she refuses to be bought. Instead, she accepts an offer of marriage from a minister passing through on his way to Japan. But her decision to abandon her home sets off a dramatic saga that will echo down through the generations. From bustling street markets to the pachinko parlors of the criminal underworld, Lee's complex and passionate characters survive and thrive against the indifferent arc of history.
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