Welcome to episode six of the Olasky interview, brought to you by listener-supported World

Radio. I'm your host, Jill Nelson. Today we'll listen in on Marvin's 2018 interview with

best-selling author Min Jin Lee. Lee was born in South Korea and was seven years old when she moved with her family to Queens,

New York in 1976. You'll hear her talk about what that transition was like in today's interview.

Minjin Lee's book, Pachinko, was a finalist for the National Book Award for Fiction in 2017.

Pachinko became a New York Times bestseller and also won honors in Canada and

Great Britain. Here now to preview this conversation is World Editor-in-Chief Marvin Olasky.

Hi, Marvin. Hey, Jill. Now, I would guess some listeners may not recognize the name Minjin-Lee.

How did she get on your radar? Read her books. She's written

two terrific novels, one called Free Food for Millionaires, which I found interesting because

the characters are wrestling with God in some way, and one of the characters is going to a

church in New York City, clearly modeled

on Tim Keller's Redeemer Presbyterian Church.

So I found that interesting, and a very good writer to be dealing with some of the same

questions that Christians in New York are really thinking through.

And then Pachinko, which came out in 2017, is just a terrific book.

It's a multi-generational saga of Koreans in Japan, provides a positive view of Christianity.

I should mention that there's some extramarital sex and there are bad words that occasionally flow out of the mouths of bad characters.

But, you know, that goes with our culture these days. And it's a terrific book.

Some interesting characters and some interesting themes, it sounds like. And you and other readers aren't the only ones taking notice.

Former President Barack Obama put Pacino on his reading list, and now Hollywood is working on something?

Apple is going to have a TV series based on Pacino.

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