Samuel

Pachinko, a multigenerational saga of a Korean family living in Japan between the 1930s and 1980s, is a book heavy on grief. Min Jin Lee has written characters so real that you wish you could reach out and, well, give them a hug or something.

The story unfolds slowly, but I couldn't put the book down and I likely won't stop thinking about the rich and varied themes for a long while.

Beautiful, quiet, reflective.

In a journal entry, Hayes quotes Oliver Sacks saying “The most we can do is to write—intelligently, creatively, critically, evocatively—about what it is like living in the world at this time.”

And Hayes does.