Breaking Free and Fitting In: Three Novels

In Min Jin Lee‘s bestselling novel, Pachinko, four generations of a poor Korean immigrant family fight to control their destiny in 20th-century Japan, exiled from a home they never knew. Set in St. Petersburg on the eve of the Russian Revolution, Janet Fitch’s latest novel, The Revolution of Marina M., depicts a young woman of privilege who aches to break free of the constraints of her genteel life—a life which will be violently upended by the vast forces of history. The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane, a thrilling new novel from bestselling author Lisa See, explores the lives of a Chinese mother and her daughter who has been adopted by an American couple.