That book sounds delightful, Negin. Putting it on my list.
After finishing Pachinko, one of the best multi-generational novels I've ever read (FYI, there is a lot of language and many explicit scenes in this book - I don't see them as gratuitous but want to tell those who may be bothered by this), I read On Reading Well. This is a book arranged by virtue (patience, hope, love, chastity, etc.) with an excellent novel or short story used to explain it in a literary way, sort of a moral analysis of the story and of the virtue. By an English professor at Liberty U - really well written and thought-provoking. It finally made me appreciate Cormac McCarthy's The Road, which I was barely able to finish several years ago (due to emotional distress, I guess), and it also made me go read "Everything That Rises Must Converge" and "Revelation" from my brand-new Flannery O'Connor collection, and I was floored by her incredible writing.
Nest up for me is The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle.
"Ree-bee," Mom to former United States Marine ds and math teacher DIL * artist dd 20 * motion-loving ds 17 * piano-playing ds 12
"For Miss Minnie loved children and she loved books, and she taught merely by introducing the one to the other." from "A Consent," by Wendell Berry