About the Novel
Opposites attract when college freshmen Phoebe Lin, a piano prodigy, and Will Kendall, a misfit scholarship student, meet and find solace from their pain in one another. But when a grief-stricken and penitent Phoebe meets enigmatic John Leal, she is driven into a new and dark world of totalism. As Phoebe dives deeper into the cult, the group performs an act of terrorism, mangling Phoebe and Will's relationship.
About the Author
R. O. Kwon is a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellow. The Incendiaries is her first novel, and it was named a best book of the year by over forty publications. Her writing is published in The New York Times, The Guardian, The Paris Review, Buzzfeed, New York Magazine, NPR and elsewhere. Born in South Korea, she has lived most of her life in the United States. | 
