PositiveFrenchlyKim has managed to nurse to life is a haunting, surreal story of loss, and of being lost ... The question of identity is an ever-shifting thing in Kim’s novel, and he uses relationships between expats to elucidate some of the surprising revelations every immigrant encounters ... Paris is a Party, Paris is a Ghost, manages to strike a darkly comic tone even while recounting suicides and hate crimes ... But one can always sense the abyss lying just beneath the thick, palatable layer of humor ... There is one area in which Kim’s true passion shines through the cracks: his love for translation.
