Ahn Love by Park, Frances
Ahn Love by Park, Frances

Ahn Love

Nora Nazerene Abu Bakar, Vice President and Publisher at Penguin Southeast Asia, praises the work as "a...
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Author: Frances Park
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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Ahn Love by Park, Frances

Ahn Love

$23.98
Ahn Love by Park, Frances

Ahn Love

$23.98
Author: Frances Park
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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Nora Nazerene Abu Bakar, Vice President and Publisher at Penguin Southeast Asia, praises the work as "a novel of extraordinary literary ambition and emotional depth." AARP's "Fall 2026 Books Preview: 41 of the Season's Top Reads"ELLE India Magazine's "Must-Read Books of 2026""Book of the Month" Selection by the Untitled Book Club (Malaysia)"What a gorgeous gorgeous book... a beautiful reflection on life and love" --NetGalley Reviewer"If you're looking for a story that feels like a fever dream of nostalgia and heartbreak, you really have to pick up Ahn Love by Frances Park" --Goodreads Reviewer A dreamy, poignant romp, Ahn Love opens with Margaret visiting her widowed father, Sam Ahn, on his ninetieth birthday. His crippling loneliness―anchored in the belief that if his orchids ever bloom, his late wife will return―transports Margaret back to the summer of 1969 and the Ahns' seven-day cruise across the Pacific. On that fateful voyage, a teenage Margaret―nicknamed Monkey―witnessed the unraveling of her family: her beloved but servile Uncle Bong's betrayal, her mother's fateful encounter with a Brazilian playboy, and the first stirrings of her own awakening. Amid the glittering decks and restless seas, Margaret experiences the dizzying highs and crushing lows of youth―magic, tragic, exotic, and erotic―all new to her, including a brief but intoxicating romance with the dashing Adam Kang, a young Korean Brit. As memory and present entwine, Ahn Love becomes a tender meditation on desire, loss, and the fragile beauty of time―where the seeds of love and heartbreak are sown in equal measure.

Author: Frances Park
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 11/03/2026
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.66lbs
Size: 7.71h x 4.91w x 0.71d
ISBN: 9789815266351

About the Author

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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