Yongsoo Park is a Korean American writer who has authored the novels Boy Genius (ISBN 1888451246)[1][2][3][4][5] and Las Cucarachas (ISBN 1888451564),[6] the essay collection The Art of Eating Bitter: A Hausfrau Dad's Journey with Kids (ISBN 1720767505), and the memoir Rated R Boy: Growing Up Korean in 1980s Queens (ISBN 1654216747).
[7] Kathleen Alcala, while being interviewed about magical realism for Margin, described Boy Genius as being among "the most subversive magical realism".
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