Pachinko

ETA: After pondering this book more, I'm bumping it from 4 to 5 stars. The plot has stuck with me in unexpected ways.I was about halfway through reading this book when I remembered that Min Jin Lee had a debut novel called [b:Free Food for Millionaires 709734 Free Food for Millionaires Min Jin Lee https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1328038874s/709734.jpg 3343234]. I looked it up on Goodreads to add it to my TBR, only to realize I had apparently read it – and hated it.It didn't taint my enjoyment of this book though. I loved this multigenerational saga about a Korean family (and those who become family) that spans most of the 20th century. There is so much that happens over the course of this book that to summarize it would be doing it injustice, but I would recommend reading the first chapter and seeing what you think. I also enjoyed how Lee wove political and historical events into the book but without spending too much time going in a separate tangent, which many authors tend to do.Lee also tends to have something major happen right before she switches to a different character's perspective or a new time period, which takes a little getting used to.