Pachinko by Min Jin Lee

BATB score: 6.6/10 🇰🇷🇯🇵

Best to: know that it's a journey through five generations of a Korean family seeking refuge and making a life in Japan (that was never truly home). A novel of a wife's role for her husband, dignity in the eyes of thy neighbours, poverty, suicide, yakuza and pachiko parlors.

Best for: novel loyalist - it's a really long book that doesn't end; five generations, i tell you. The book gives you random shocking one-sentence plot twist - oddball surprises that shoots you in the core.

Best as: a great portrayal of racism and discrimination since 1910s between Koreans and Japanese

*Random Thought* Korean vs Japanese both asian both yellow juxtaposition to today's white supremacy and black lives matter - even if we all are colour blind, would it make any difference?

*Another Random Thought* there are definitely better novels that will break you and make you cry; this one, not quite.