Fell in love with these characters from the start. Specifically fell in step with Sunja and loved how the reader sees her in each stage of her life. There was so much turmoil and intense sadness in this... and yet I was fully engrossed and spent hours with the book not wanting to put it down even though I had to go to bed. There was a lot I didn't know and learned about Korea and Japan and immigration, and I'm glad to understand it more. The first 2/3 of this book are just ripping and roaring, but something falls off or feels abrupt in the last 1/3 and I'm not sure if it's because we didn't spend as much time with the younger generation (Solomon, Hana) as we did with Yangjin, Sunja, Noa? The final scene did make me well up; Lee able to conjure a family story that left me thinking of their fictional personal history as real memories.