Pachinko — Min Jin Lee (2017)

Min Jin Lee's Pachinko — a multigenerational saga following a Korean family in Japan from 1910 to 1989 — is the finest novel written about the Korean-Japanese diaspora and one of the great multigenerational family novels of the 21st century. Its depiction of ethnic discrimination, class aspiration, and the persistence of family obligation across time is both historically meticulous and deeply human.