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PRAISE FOR
LOVE LOVE

“You will love
Love Love
. Like Kevin on the tennis court, Sung J. Woo marries brute force with clever misdirection; brilliant flourishes with measured restraint; craft with strategy. The result is a gem of a novel, by turns poignant, heartbreaking and wickedly funny. The only dangling thread: when's the film adaptation coming out?”

—
JON WERTHEIM
,

Sports Illustrated
executive editor and author of

Strokes of Genius: Federer, Nadal, and the Greatest Match Ever Played

“With antic humor and boundless sympathy, Sung J. Woo gives his broken characters something to reach for.
Love Love
is an ace.”

—
ED PARK
,

author of
Personal Days


Love Love
is sad and funny and full of absolutely brilliant writing.”

—
STEWART O
'
NAN
,

bestselling author of
West of Sunset
and
The Odds

“Sung J. Woo's
Love Love
is a wonderful read—funny, tender, touching, and true. This is the novel about tennis, porn, art, and family that the world has been waiting for.”

—
ALIX OHLIN
,

author of
Signs and Wonders and Inside

“Sung J. Woo has written a surprising, moving novel that powerfully explores notions of family, creativity, skill, and—yes—love.”

—
LOUISA THOMAS
,

staff writer at
Grantland
and author of
Conscience: Two Soldiers,

Two Pacifists, One Family—a Test of Will and Faith in World War

“This tale of unconventional love in unconventional families is funny, knowing, and always surprising.
Love Love
has got it all: tennis, of course, but also organized crime, pornography, a venomous snake, and more twists than a bag of Rold Golds. Give it half a chance and it will charm the terry-cloth headband off you.”

—
J. ROBERT LENNON
,

author of
Familiar
and
See You in Paradise

PRAISE FOR
EVERYTHING ASIAN

“Full of wit, humor and heart, the book succinctly captures the struggle of an immigrant child trying to fit into American society—and in his own dysfunctional family.”

—
Chicago Sun-Times

“A novel that both delights and instructs.”

—
Kirkus
, starred review

“There's a certain genius inherent in choosing a strip mall as a 1980s period setting, and Woo makes the most of it, filling the book with the way customers' and neighboring storeowners' lives touch—sometimes only glancingly—on the three Kims' first year in America. . . . Woo has cleverly constructed a central narrative that runs like a Venn diagram through the tour of Peddlers Town.”

—
Christian Science Monitor

Copyright © 2015 Sung J. Woo

All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission from the publisher, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.

This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are products of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA

Woo, Sung J.

Love love: a novel / Sung J. Woo.

pages cm

1.
  
Single women—Fiction. 2.
  
Single men—Fiction. 3.
  
Adopted children—Fiction. 4.
  
Brothers and sisters—Fiction. 5.
  
Koreans—Fiction.

I. Title.

PS3623.O6225L68 2015

813'.6—dc23

2015009333

Jacket design by Jennifer Heuer

Interior design by Neuwirth & Associates

Soft Skull Press

An Imprint of COUNTERPOINT

2560 Ninth Street, Suite 318

Berkeley, CA 94710

www.softskull.com

Distributed by Publishers Group West

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e-book ISBN 978-1-61902-675-9

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Contents

Part I: A Week in September

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Chapter 11

Chapter 12

Chapter 13

Part II: The Month of October

Chapter 14

Chapter 15

Chapter 16

Chapter 17

Chapter 18

Chapter 19

Chapter 20

Chapter 21

Chapter 22

Chapter 23

Chapter 24

Part III: Three Days in November

Chapter 25

Chapter 26

Chapter 27

Chapter 28

Saturday

Acknowledgments

About the Author

 

“Love is something eternal—the aspect may change, but not the essence.”

—V
INCENT VAN
G
OGH

“Love is nothing in tennis, but in life, it's everything.”

—A
NONYMOUS

PART I

A WEEK IN SEPTEMBER

 

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