![]() ![]() President Barack Obama selected Pachinko for his recommended reading list, calling it, “a powerful story about resilience and compassion.” Pachinko has been translated into over 35 languages and is an international bestseller. It was on over 75 best books of the year lists, including NPR, PBS, and CNN. Pachinko was a selection for “Now Read This,” the joint book club of PBS NewsHour and The New York Times. A New York Times Bestseller, Pachinko was also a Top 10 Books of the Year for the BBC, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, and the New York Public Library. Pachinko was a finalist for the National Book Award for Fiction, runner-up for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, winner of the Medici Book Club Prize, and a New York Times 10 Best Books of 2017. Pachinko, her second novel, is an epic story which follows a Korean family who migrates to Japan it is the first novel written for an adult, English-speaking audience about the Korean-Japanese people. ![]() Lee is a writer whose award-winning fiction explores the intersection of race, ethnicity, immigration, class, religion, gender, and identity of a diasporic people. She teaches fiction and essay writing at Amherst College and lives in New York City. ![]() Lee practiced law for two years before turning to writing. She studied history at Yale College and law at Georgetown University. Min Jin Lee was born in Seoul, South Korea and immigrated to Queens, New York with her family when she was seven years old. ![]()
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