Korean history is not usually taught in schools here in the United States. We learn it in other ways: through our family and friends; through Korean school programs, often run through evangelical and Roman Catholic churches and their summer programs; through undergraduate classes in East Asian studies and Asian American studies; and through the Korean and Korean American fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and memoirs where we learn everything our families and teachers won’t or can’t tell us. In my own
Ed Park's debut, 'Personal Days,' satirized office culture. His new novel of alternate history, 'Same Bed Different Dreams,' is a wildly more ambitious project.