Author of Her Forthcoming Collection, SOMEDAY TODAY WILL SEEM LIKE A LONG TIME AGO.
Panhandle Creek Press will publish Frances Park’s beautiful collection of short stories and essays, Someday Today Will Seem Like A Long Time Ago, In the Spring of 2027.
Frances Park is a Korean American author of sixteen books – novels, memoirs, and children’s books published around the world. Her works often reflect an identity born of two worlds and have been praised by The Washington Post, NPR, Good Morning America, CNN, Voice of America, Radio Free Asia, USA Today, and The Times Literary Supplement. A dreamy romp, her forthcoming novel Ahn Love will be published in 2026 by Penguin Books SEA.
Her previous novel Blue Rice was the 2024 Bronze Winner in Multicultural Fiction from Foreword Reviews. 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.” The Summer My Sister Was Cleopatra Moon portrays two Korean American
sisters growing up in 1970s white suburbia, a poignant novel described as “bold, powerful, entrancing” by The London Times. Frances’ award-winning short stories and personal essays have appeared in over fifty 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.
Description
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.
