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Summary
Welcome to the LitCharts study guide on Min Jin Lee's Pachinko. Created by the original team behind SparkNotes, LitCharts are the world's best literature guides.
Pachinko: Introduction
A concise biography of Min Jin Lee plus historical and literary context for Pachinko.
Pachinko: Plot Summary
A quick-reference summary: Pachinko on a single page.
Pachinko: Detailed Summary & Analysis
In-depth summary and analysis of every chapter of Pachinko. Visual theme-tracking, too.
Pachinko: Themes
Explanations, analysis, and visualizations of Pachinko's themes.
Pachinko: Quotes
Pachinko's important quotes, sortable by theme, character, or chapter.
Pachinko: Characters
Description, analysis, and timelines for Pachinko's characters.
Pachinko: Terms
Description, analysis, and timelines for Pachinko's terms.
Pachinko: Symbols
Explanations of Pachinko's symbols, and tracking of where they appear.
Pachinko: Theme Wheel
An interactive data visualization of Pachinko's plot and themes.
Brief Biography of Min Jin Lee
Min Jin Lee was born in Seoul to a father who was a Korean War refugee and college-educated businessman and a mother who was the daughter of a well-known minister. After immigrating to the United States at age 7, she grew up in Elmhurst, Queens. Lee’s parents ran a wholesale jewelry shop in Manhattan’s Koreatown, where she and her sisters sometimes helped out.
Lee studied history at Yale, followed by law at Georgetown. After practicing law in New York for two years, she began studying and practicing writing while raising her son. She wrote many short stories and novel drafts about the Korean diaspora as early as 1996, but her first novel, Free Food for Millionaires, was published in 2007.
That same year, her family relocated to Tokyo, allowing her to collect oral histories from dozens of Koreans living in Japan, and she finished writing the draft that would be published as Pachinko. Pachinko has received many accolades, including being a finalist for the National Book Award for Fiction. Lee is currently working on her third diaspora novel, American Hagwon, and will be a writer-in-residence at Amherst College from 2019-2022.
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