So then I can focus on the product on the next level, the undertones.”
“When you’re re-reading, you pretty much know what’s going to happen. I want to know everything that happens,” Kwon explains about her own process of reading or binge-watching shows such as Friday Night Lights, one of her current favorites.
I know people do get very upset about spoilers and they don’t want to hear about spoilers, but personally, I don’t care. People died.” What might feel like a spoiler is actually just her way of helping readers start to build ideas and look for clues in her prose. The author embraces this painful future as early as the book’s second page, writing, “Buildings fell. John looms over the relationship like a ghost, almost more dominating in his absence and silence, as Kwon builds strong and detailed images of the couple. Will, a former evangelical, is left struggling to understand how she fell under the sway of John Leal, who was held in a North Korean prison camp during his twenties after being caught trying to smuggle out refugees (if that ever actually happened). Together, the pair weave a tapestry of tremendous emotional baggage as they embark on the start of their adult lives-with (unsurprisingly) disastrous ends as Phoebe ends up enmeshed in a religious cult and goes on to bomb a number of abortion clinics. The story tells of Will and Phoebe, two young adults entering the fictional Edwards University for their first year. Telling a story of love, loss, and religious fervor in the era of youth, Kwon, who took ten years to finish this book, writes with a cadence that helps maintain a constant, humming energy and a steady voice within a novel with plenty of smoke and mirrors. Starting off with a bang-quite literally-RO Kwon spares no readers in her début novel The Incendiaries. RO KWON ON CULTS AND YOUNG LOVE IN 'THE INCENDIARIES'
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