Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
Yeongdo, Korea 1911. A club-footed, cleft-lipped man marries a fifteen-year-old girl. The couple have one child, their beloved daughter Sunja. When Sunja falls pregnant by a married yakuza, the family face ruin. But then a Christian minister offers a chance of salvation: a new life in Japan as his wife. Following a man he barely knows to a hostile country where she has no friends and no home, Sunja’s salvation is just the beginning of her story.
Trigger & Content Warnings:
- Racism
- Misogyny
- Physical & emotional abuse
- Suicide
- Suicidal ideation
- Starvation
- Death of a parent
- Colonialism
- Korean War & World War two