Pachinko

April 2018
We read Pachinko by Min Jin Lee this month.  Everyone loved this epic novel.  We all learned more about what it felt like to be Korean in a Japanese dominated culture through the generations of characters in this novel.  Chrysanne referred to the work as a Korean War and Peace!  There was a great discussion around the choices the characters had to make to be a good person in a challenging world.  Everyone loved the writing and the characters. 

We are meeting at Cindy's on May 30th and we are reading The Night Inspector By Frederick Busch.

Transatlantic

February 2018
We read Transatlantic by Colum McCann this month.  Having read Let the Great World Spin, we were interested in his next novel.  This one took historical characters such as Jack Alcock and Arthur Brown and Fredrick Douglass and fictionalizes their transatlantic flight and fight for civil rights respectively and intermixes their stories with fictionalized characters.  The characters across the generations have connections which are not always easy to keep track of.  We had mixed reviews from our club members.  Frederick Douglass was our favorite character and seeing the African American struggle through his eyes was a topic of discussion.

In March, we plan to read Pachinko by Min Jin Lee and meet at Ed's on April 9th.