Advanced Comprehension at the Doctor Awesome English Academy
Coming March 3, 2026!
The relentless pressure of South Korea's academic race explodes inside one high-priced cram school, where education is merely a glossy cover for greed and chaos.
Told through the eyes of a down-and-out English instructor, this collection of interconnected vignettes rips back the curtain of a second language school loaded with journeying deadbeats, drug-addled seekers, obsessive tiger moms, and brain-fried administrators. Alongside are ruminations on the conflicted search for community abroad and the difficult, perhaps doomed pursuit of escape.
“What comes across in these pages is a restless, riveting intelligence, along with some superb prose. This is fine work, and Marsh is a writer to keep your eye on.”
~ Steve Yarbrough, author of The Realm of Last Chances
Coolest American Stories 2025
America’s most talented storytellers share their most interesting, engaging, unputdownable work in a collection made for story lovers. Winner of the 2025 International Book Award for Best Fiction Anthology, COOLEST AMERICAN STORIES 2025 exudes its editors’ philosophy that a collection of widely appealing stories can make for common ground that could unite rather than divide Americans.
”Rich with complex characters and myriad situations…a masterful collection.”
- California Review of Books