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“Park is a genuinely creative writer, who continues to challenge himself to try something new.”
“Like all funny writers, Park is attentive to form, and uses headers and other formal shifts to get in little jokes and control his pacing.”
“Personal Days is full of wordplay, dry observations, and weird specifics, and none of it feels tacked on or forced.”
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“His latest book, Three Tenses , a well as his Pulitzer Prize finalist Same Bed Different Dreams , are complex without resorting to gimmicks or cheap obfuscation that implies depth.”
“Personal Days follows a group of office workers who spend their days in the Manhattan offices of a mysterious company with murky goals.”
“Nobody seems to work much, though, the employees are consumed by gossip, crushes, and confusion about their coworkers, superiors, and others who lurk in their building.”
“The homonyms and mishearing are folded into the plot, which turns at a few instances on wordplay and puns.”