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Min Jin Lee
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New from Min Jin Lee: American Hagwon, releasing September 2026.
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Pachinko
by Min Jin Lee
Min Jin Lee's Pachinko follows four generations of a Korean family scraping out a life in Japan across most of the twentieth century. It's a sweeping, patient family saga about the people history overlooks — immigrants treated as permanent outsiders, women who endure, and the long cost of survival.