The parents were born in Japan, the boy was born in Japan. "They had written the words: die, die, die. "And in this yearbook several of his classmates had written things like: Go back to your country," Lee says. After his death the boy's parents found his school yearbook. He told a story about a 13-year-old boy who committed suicide. It was 1989 and she went to a lecture by an American missionary who had been working with the Korean Japanese in Japan. Lee got the idea for her book when she was still a college student. It's about the story of one family's struggle to fit into a society that treats them with contempt.
Min Jin Lee's new novel Pachinko is about much more than the game. Known as pachinko, the multibillion-dollar industry is dominated by Korean Japanese, an immigrant community that has been unwelcome and ill-treated for generations. Your purchase helps support NPR programming.
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