Sadness in small moments: Henry's review of Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
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Before I started Pachinko I was hoping to rediscover a love of the novel that I definitely had growing up, but have steadily lost over time. I think that the more I have come to learn about my own backstory and mixed White-Asian cultural identity, the less I have naturally wanted to empathise with the fiction often recommended to me in e.g. British school curricula. That’s both a failure of my own, i.e. to not seek out a diverse range of authors, and possibly of my schooling, but I’m happiest to take the blame for myself.
Sadness in small moments: Henry's review of Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
Sadness in small moments: Henry's review of…
Sadness in small moments: Henry's review of Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
Before I started Pachinko I was hoping to rediscover a love of the novel that I definitely had growing up, but have steadily lost over time. I think that the more I have come to learn about my own backstory and mixed White-Asian cultural identity, the less I have naturally wanted to empathise with the fiction often recommended to me in e.g. British school curricula. That’s both a failure of my own, i.e. to not seek out a diverse range of authors, and possibly of my schooling, but I’m happiest to take the blame for myself.