Act of Creation & Other Stories [Kindle Edition]

J.A. Pak (Author)

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Product Description

Food, obsession, heartbreak. Three stories.

Product Details

• Format: Kindle Edition
• File Size: 81 KB
• Publisher: Eden Street Press (May 13, 2011)
• Sold by: Amazon Digital Services
• Language: English
• ASIN: B0050UQ02M
• Text-to-Speech: Enabled
• Lending: Enabled
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,856 Free in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Free in Kindle Store)
  • #75 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Fiction > Literary Fiction

More About the Author

J.A. Pak's writing has appeared in a variety of publications, including Art/Life, Atticus Review, Everyday Genius, Identity Theory, Kartika Review, Quarterly West, Split Quarterly, The Smoking Poet, and The Subterranean Journal.

She also blogs about:

Food http://notjuliachild.blogspot.com/
TV http://tvkitty.blogspot.com/
L.A. http://lanewbie.blogspot.com/

To fan her at Goodreads, please visit her author page at http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/5112575.J_A_Pak

To follow her at Twitter, please visit https://twitter.com/#!/JAPak

Happy reading!

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4.0 out of 5 stars Act of Creation & Other Stories, January 19, 2012

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Jennifer O. "bibliophile" (Texas) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Act of Creation & Other Stories (Kindle Edition)

There are three stories in this mini collection: Act of Creation, What I Did for Pho, and Gurume Kurabe.

Act of Creation : "Mary ran her cake business in a way she could never have run her marriage." And when Mary's husband leaves her, all Mary can control is her business, her art, and the subjects she chooses to depict with her magnificent cakes. An amusing and delectable tale that had me thinking of Pygmalion and Galatea, this story will leave you with cravings for cake and more Pak stories.

What I Did for Pho: Say you can convince the owner of your favorite restaurant to rent a recently vacated building right in front of your home. Easy access to food, good neighborhood (and business) for them: everybody's happy. Right? Well, nothing is ever so easy or so uncomplicated. Read the results when one man makes this happen.

Gurume Kurabe: In an effort to appear more "in the know" than his condescending, arrogant "friend," Gordon Swink--a knowledge hoarder who can tell you who has the best corned beef, where to go when you need your shoes re-soled--the narrator, through various devices of his own, wrangles a meal that is the best Japanese you can find in New York. Unfortunately for him, when Swink gets word of this, he will stop at nothing to find out where it is, and to get his own invitation. A hilarious satire on "frenemies" and social climbers.