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...