"Pachinko is the novel I tell anyone who will listen about. It is a multigenerational, sweeping saga of Koreans in Japan. The prose is as edifying as it is absorbing. There are no easy, convenient endings for any of these characters but my goodness, how richly Min Jin Lee renders their lives."

"Pachinko” is the novel I tell anyone who will listen about. It is a multigenerational, sweeping saga of Koreans in Japan. The prose is as edifying as it is absorbing. There are no easy, convenient endings for any of these characters but my goodness, how richly Min Jin Lee renders their lives."

"For fans of To Kill a Mockingbird who always wondered (at least until Go Set a Watchman came out) why Lee never produced another book, this story will answer, at least in part, that question. Willie Maxwell was a preacher and a con man and a murderer. This is an intriguing, though I wouldn’t say totally unique, combination. Well, it was enticing enough for Harper Lee to sit in on the trial and spend years trying to make a book out of it as a follow-up to the sui generis Mockingbird. She never managed to do it, but Cep has brilliantly presented for our reading pleasure the full story here. She does so in lyric prose and concise presentment of facts. Maxwell is enough to justify a book all by himself. When you throw in Harper Lee, perhaps the most enigmatic and reclusive author of modern times (with the possible exception of J.D. Salinger), this is a no-brainer of a read. Enjoy."