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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.