Go plays a big role in Freeman Ng's Bridge Across The Sky, a verse novel based on the Chinese
immigration experience through Angel Island in the early 1900's. Two games played against his grandfather by Tai Go, the novel's teenage protagonist, are vividly recounted, and his grandfather's analysis of the second game enables the struggling teen to finally understand an important Go proverb and apply it to the problems he faces while detained at the immigration station, helping him find his way to the story's climax and a purpose for his new life in America.
The accounts of the two games and the grandfather's later analysis of the second one, which Ng had vetted by Go streamers Nick Sibicky and "Triton Baduk", can be read on the book's website.