This month we will be discussing: "Pachink o" by Min Jin Lee
\nPlot Summary: "In the early 1900s\, teenaged Sun ja\, the adored daughter of a crippled fisherman\, falls for a wealthy str anger at the seashore near her home in Korea. He promises her the world\, but when she discovers she is pregnant&mdash\;and that her lover is marrie d&mdash\;she refuses to be bought. Instead\, she accepts an offer of marri age from a gentle\, sickly minister passing through on his way to Japan. B ut her decision to abandon her home\, and to reject her son's powerful fat her\, sets off a dramatic saga that will echo down through the generations .
\nRichly told and profoundly moving\, \;Pachinko \;is a st ory of love\, sacrifice\, ambition\, and loyalty. From bustling street mar kets to the halls of Japan's finest universities to the pachinko parlors o f the criminal underworld\, Lee's complex and passionate characters&mdash\ ;strong\, stubborn women\, devoted sisters and sons\, fathers shaken by mo ral crisis&mdash\;survive and thrive against the indifferent arc of histor y." (Goodreads.com)
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