Book reviews, recommendations and literary life.
Book reviews, recommendations and literary life.
Pachinko is a story of love, sacrifice, ambition, and loyalty told through a sweeping multi-generational epic. Pachinko by Min Jin Lee Yeongdo, Korea 1911. In a small fishing village on the banks of the East Sea, a club-footed, cleft-lipped man marries a fifteen-year-old girl. The couple have one child, their beloved daughter Sunja. …
I was lucky enough to get a proof copy of Cecily before it came out in July. My first thoughts were how beautiful the cover is! It’s extremely striking and is so much more modern than lots of other historical fictions novels. That aside, I was excited to read it. I’d already heard good things …
