Three Family Saga Novels Published Since 1950

​Keefe Gorman is a financial advisor and managing director of Merrill Lynch in Ithaca, New York. He is an alumnus of St Lawrence University, where he studied economics and Spanish. At Merrill Lynch, Keefe Gorman’s primary practice areas are retirement income advice, investment asset allocation strategies, and liability management. When he’s not working, he likes to read and spend time with his family.

Here are three family-centered novels that have been published since 1950.

Pachinko by Min Jin Lee

Published in 2017, Pachinko is an epic story that spans several generations. At the center is Sunja, a Korean woman living in Japan in the early 20th century, and her family. Having grown up poor but proud in Korea, she moves to Japan at the offer of marriage from a young pastor to escape the shame of getting pregnant at the age of 17. The story follows the lives of Sunja and her new family as an impoverished Korean minority in Japan.

White Teeth by Zadie Smith

Set in England in the 20th century, the novel follows the lives and histories of two families, the Joneses, an English - Jamaican family, and the Iqbals, a Bangladeshi family living in Willesden, London. It treats themes of racism, classism, and how the events of the past come to be of urgent importance in the future.

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

This book is an epic story that spans a hundred years in the lives of seven generations of the Buendia family. It is also a historical fiction, as it details the turbulent history of Latin Americans.

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