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Visiting her widowed father, Margaret Ahn recalls the summer of '69 when she experienced both dreamy first love and ugly realities on the family's weeklong cruise across the Pacific A dreamy romp, Ahn Love opens with Margaret visiting her widowed father Sam Ahn for his ninetieth birthday. His crippling loneliness - marked by a conviction that if his orchids ever bloom, his wife will come back to life - transports Margaret to the Ahns' seven-day cruise across the Pacific in the summer of '69 when she was a lovesick teen nicknamed Monkey, when her beloved if not servile Uncle Bong betrayed the family, and when her beautiful mother's encounter with a Brazilian playboy ultimately charted her death a decade later. Like the seas, the journey had its highs and lows. It was magic, tragic, exotic, and erotic - all things new to Margaret, including her romance with the dashing Adam Kang, a young Korean Brit who loved her but hated himself as the two sailed through a whole courtship as if ship years were measured in hours. Indeed, clocked love and lost paradise lay the seeds of Ahn Love.

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Frances Park is a Korean American author of novels and memoirs published around the world. Her books have been praised by The Straits Times, The Washington Post, The Korea Times, USA Today, The Times Literary Supplement, The London Times, The Korean Quarterly, The Taipei Times, National Public Radio, Voice of America, Radio Free Asia, CNN, Newsweek, and Good Morning America. Her stories reflect an identity shaped by two worlds. In her novel Blue Rice, a Korean woman who survived the war must adjust to 1960s white America while confronting the pain of her husband's desertion. Her poignant novel The Summer My Sister Was Cleopatra Moon explores the spiritual dislocation of two Korean American sisters growing up in Washington, DC suburbia in the 1970s. Her memoir-in-essays That Lonely Spell was praised by Kirkus Reviews as ""a fresh take on the Korean American memoir by a writer from a generation whose voice has seldom been heard."" Frances's award-winning short stories and essays have appeared in over fifty literary magazines, including O, The Oprah Magazine, The Massachusetts Review, The Columbia Journal, The London Magazine, Arts & Letters, The Bellevue Literary Review, and The Chicago Quarterly. The loss of her father at a young age haunts much of her writing. In Ahn Love, she imagines him as he might have been had he lived to the age of ninety. Frances lives outside Washington, DC. Visit her at parksisters.com.

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