This is a book club episode. In it, Travis and Amanda will discuss and analyze the first half of PACHINKO by Min Jin Lee. You should expect full “spoilers,” discussions of rhetorical elements, and celebrations / critiques of style and substance.
From the cover: “History is seldom kind. In Min Jin Lee’s bestselling, magisterial epic, four generations of a poor, proud immigrant family fight to control their destinies, exiled from a homeland they never knew…Richly told and profoundly moving, Pachinko is a story of love, sacrifice, ambition, and loyalty…Lee’s complex and passion characters survive and thrive against the indifferent arc of history.”