Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Heritage Month: Woodlawn Heights In-Person Book Club

Join us for a monthly book discussion hosted at the Woodlawn Heights Library! Once a month, library patrons will meet for a fun and casual book discussion.  

Woodlawn Heights Library will be reading  Pachinko by  Asian American author Min Jin Lee for Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Heritage Month. Pachinko follows one Korean family through the generations, beginning in early 1900s Korea with Sunja, the prized daughter of a poor yet proud family, whose unplanned pregnancy threatens to shame them all. Deserted by her lover, Sunja is saved when a young tubercular minister offers to marry and bring her to Japan. So begins a sweeping saga of an exceptional family in exile from its homeland and caught in the indifferent arc of history. Through desperate struggles and hard-won triumphs, its members are bound together by deep roots as they face enduring questions of faith, family, and identity.

Books will be made available for borrowing at Woodlawn Heights Library but if you would like to order your own copy through NYPL, please follow the link to our catalog to place a hold in the format of your choosing : Pachinko by Min Jin Lee

Assistive Listening and ASL

ASL interpretation and real-time (CART) captioning available upon request. Please submit your request at least two weeks in advance by emailing accessibility@nypl.org.