Fiction. Asian-American Studies. Boy Genius is a picaresque odyssey, a hallucinatory tale of a brilliant young boy seeking to avenge the wrongs perpetrated on his parents by the powers-that-be in South Korea and the United States. To do so, the boy wages a clandestine guerilla war-sometimes lurid, sometimes absurd, against all symbols of authority, including a military dictatorship in South Korea, a string of repressive teachers in the U.S., and a myriad of other bourgeois forces. "Park has taken a hilarious archetype and transformed it into a biting satire"-Arthur Nersesian.