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Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
5.0

Min Jin Lee is a masterful writer, and the years she spent researching and conceptualizing this saga are evident alongside her beautiful prose. I sort of disliked the frequency of the skips forward in time, but each section marvelously fills in details in such a way that I never felt a sense of incompleteness from the missing time, so it's hard to say really what my qualm can be with the skips.⁣
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Now that I've finished getting kicked in the heart by this brilliant novel, I guess there's nothing left to do but sit here on Team Waiting For Min Jin Lee's Third Novel!