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Book Exploder: Min Jin Lee - Pachinko

Aug 17, 2022
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INSIGHT

Gaze As Origin Of Love And Power

  • Min Jin Lee links the moment of falling in love to a gaze as the origin of romantic narrative energy.
  • She frames the scene also as feminist commentary about how female value is socially assigned by male attention.
INSIGHT

Value Is What Others Say

  • Lee emphasizes that social value often comes from who notices you, not intrinsic qualities.
  • She uses a third-party character to dramatize how public attention confers worth and danger.
ADVICE

Prepare For Hardship, Keep Working

  • Expect suffering and keep working hard, Lee says, because preparation helps confront inevitable hardship.
  • She presents this as a pragmatic life philosophy she learned from interviews with older women.
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