An Oral History of Atlantis: Stories

"Although this is his first short-story collection, Ed Park told Lit Hub that the stories were actually written over a span of about 25 years. No surprise, then, that readers will recognize the same playful wit and eclectic, occasionally challenging style that animate his two previous novels, including the 2024 Pulitzer Prize finalist, Same Bed Different Dreams. But unlike that book, which pulls from Korea’s past for a grandly wrought alternative history, the stories in Atlantis live squarely in our own absurd present, a workaday wonderland where lives can be told in sleep-medication side effects and Internet login passwords."