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4.0

Thank you to Random House for the gifted ARC

A Korean-American writer-turned-tech worker, Soon Shin, comes across a manuscript translated from Korean at a party. Titled "Same Bed Different Dreams," the novel reimagines a parallel universe in which the Korean Provisional Government (KPG) never dissolves after WW2.

SAME BED weaves together three distinct narratives into one trippy chonker. The first layer is Soon's personal life and career. The second narrative is the novel Soon is reading about KPG's covert operations. And the third is a Black sci-fi writer and his extraordinary life. Park brilliantly integrates these three narratives, and I was blown away by how everything comes together in the end