CTL Faculty/Instructor Diversity Book Club Online
Via Microsoft Teams
Each book includes a companion media piece as an added option.
Books will be provided upon request from the CTL. Email to schedule a time to pick up or to provide a mailing address if shipping is preferred.
Pachinko (Min Jin Lee)
In the early 1900s, teenaged Sunja, the adored daughter of a crippled fisherman, falls for a wealthy stranger at the seashore near her home in Korea. He promises her the world, but when she discovers she is pregnant--and that her lover is married--she refuses to be bought. Instead, she accepts an offer of marriage from a gentle, sickly minister passing through on his way to Japan. But her decision to abandon her home, and to reject her son's powerful father, sets off a dramatic saga that will echo down through the generations.
Richly told and profoundly moving, Pachinko is a story of love, sacrifice, ambition, and loyalty. From bustling street markets to the halls of Japan's finest universities to the pachinko parlors of the criminal underworld, Lee's complex and passionate characters--strong, stubborn women, devoted sisters and sons, fathers shaken by moral crisis--survive and thrive against the indifferent arc of history.
COMPANION FILM: IL Mare (Free on Vudu and pluto)
Meeting link to join session will be emailed to those registered.
- Date:
- Friday, February 18, 2022
- Time:
- 12:00pm - 1:00pm
- Time Zone:
- Central Time - US & Canada (change)
- Online:
- This is an online event. Event URL will be sent via registration email.
- Audience:
- Faculty Graduate students and post-docs Staff
- Categories:
- Faculty Reading Group, Book Discussion