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The Incendiaries : A Novel by Kwon R.O. [R O Kwon] is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Incendiaries : A Novel about?
A shocking novel of violence, love, faith, and loss, as a young woman at an elite American university is drawn into acts of domestic terrorism by a cult tied to North Korea. Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2018 by The New York Times, Entertainment Weekly, Elle, Time, Parade, Vanity Fair, Cosmopolitan, Esquire, PBS, Vulture, Buzzfeed, BookRiot, PopSugar, Refinery29, Bustle, The Rumpus, Paste, and BBC. Phoebe Lin and Will Kendall meet their first month at prestigious Edwards University. Phoebe is a glamorous girl who doesn’t tell anyone she blames herself for her mother’s recent death. Will is a misfit scholarship boy who transfers to Edwards from Bible college, waiting tables to get by. What he knows for sure is that he loves Phoebe. Grieving and guilt-ridden, Phoebe is increasingly drawn into a religious group—a secretive extremist cult—founded by a charismatic former student, John Leal. He has an enigmatic past that involves North Korea and Phoebe’s Korean American family. Meanwhile, Will struggles to confront the fundamentalism he’s tried to escape, and the obsession consuming the one he loves. When the group bombs several buildings in the name of faith, killing five people, Pho
Who reads The Incendiaries : A Novel?
It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Kwon R.O. [R O Kwon]
- Publisher
- Riverhead Books, Penguin
- Published
- 2018
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780735213906
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Fiction, Literary Fiction, Contemporary Fiction
- Rating
- 3.6 / 5 (1,303 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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