{"id":44125,"date":"2018-06-18T11:12:03","date_gmt":"2018-06-18T15:12:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/?p=44125"},"modified":"2018-06-13T19:18:49","modified_gmt":"2018-06-13T23:18:49","slug":"incendiaries-r-o-kwon-booklist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/incendiaries-r-o-kwon-booklist\/","title":{"rendered":"The Incendiaries by R.O. Kwon [in Booklist]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-43996\" src=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/05\/Incendiaries-R.O.-Kwon-BookDragon-511x800.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"511\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/05\/Incendiaries-R.O.-Kwon-BookDragon-511x800.jpg 511w, https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/05\/Incendiaries-R.O.-Kwon-BookDragon.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 511px) 100vw, 511px\" \/>Looming death, missing parents, God, and reinvention turn an unlikely pair, Phoebe Lin and Will Kendall, into lovers at privileged Edwards University in upstate New York.<\/p>\n<p>In the fresh, transformative independence that is college life, Phoebe can forget her aching connection to the piano, hide her debilitating guilt over her mother\u2019s tragic death, and eschew her estranged father\u2019s religion. Will, who transfers from a small Bible college on scholarship, finds distance from his failed adoration of God, worry about his ever-fragile mother, and dismissal of his father.<\/p>\n<p>Will\u2019s hunger, physical and emotional, is magnetic, holding the desperate lovers together until dropout John Leal \u2013 a savior to some, a charlatan to others, with his zealous stories of horrific imprisonment in a North Korean gulag \u2013 invades their orbit, and violence implodes their bond.<\/p>\n<p>Kwon\u2019s debut has all the elements of what should be a stupendous success \u2013 exquisite prose, vivid characterizations, and astute observations \u2013 yet somewhere between spark and explosion, the narrative strays unnecessarily from the essential, then becomes overly elliptical to provide a persuasive finale.<\/p>\n<p><strong>YA\/Mature Readers<\/strong>: Kwon\u2019s college setting and student characters navigating the difficult transition into adulthood should resonate with mature teens.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Review<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.booklistonline.com\/The-Incendiaries-R-O-Kwon\/pid=9395286\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">&#8220;Fiction,&#8221; <em>Booklist<\/em>, June 1, 2018<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Readers<\/strong>: Young Adult, Adult<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published<\/strong>: 2018<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looming death, missing parents, God, and reinvention turn an unlikely pair, Phoebe Lin and Will Kendall, into lovers at privileged Edwards University in upstate New York. 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