Ahn Love

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 encou...