Families are complicated! Jenn Martin and Jennifer Wong discuss what makes a good family saga and share their experience reading a multi-generational novel about a Korean family living in Japan: Pachinko by Min Jin Lee.

Authors and books mentioned in this episode

• Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
• Commonwealth by Ann Patchett
• The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
• Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
• Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng
• The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
• The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
• Praise Song for the Day by Elizabeth Alexander
• Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
• Middlemarch by George Eliot
• Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
• The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
• The Makioka Sisters by Junichirō Tanizaki
• The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell

Reading suggestions for Annabel from Sydney

Annabel loved:

The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris

Jenn's suggestions:

• A Thread of Grace by Mary Doria Russell
• The Endless Steppe by Esther Hautzig
• The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
• The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
• A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles

See you at the Mudgee Readers Festival! https://www.mudgeereaders.com/

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