Sandra Park Reading, September 27

September 27, 6:30 PM
A Room of One's Own Books
307 W. Johnson St., Madison WI

It's the early 1950s in Hawaii. A multi-generational Korean-American family crams into a house in Coconut Grove, across the mountains from Honolulu. With too many in a small space, dreams wither shrink-to-fit or seek escape-- father recalls his wartime romance, sister-in-law Gloria yearns for a husband, son Ezra plots to leave home. Sandra Park's novella captures the pent-up desires of family and an endless fascination with strangers. House, island, world-- it's a story that sings like a radio tune, familiar to anyone struck by longing and homesickness.

Sandra Park's fiction and poetry have appeared in the St. Petersburg Review, The Iowa Review, New American Writing, Five Fingers Review and in two anthologies Honolulu Stories and Oakland Out Loud. From Hawaii, she now lives in southern California. Visit her website for more information.