Exhibit

I've said it before, but now I'll shout it from the rooftops: R. O. Kwon is the real deal - Lauren Groff, author of Fates and Furies and Florida

This debut novel is absolutely electric, something new in the firmament - Garth Greenwell, author of What Belongs to You, on The Incendiaries

The Incendiaries has a fairy-tale quality reminiscent of Donna Tartt's The Secret History - New Yorker on The Incendiaries

The Incendiaries packs a disruptive charge, and introduces R. O. Kwon as a major talent - Financial Times on The Incendiaries

A startlingly assured book by an important new writer - Guardian on The Incendiaries

Every explosive requires a fuse. That's R. O. Kwon's novel, a straight, slow-burning fuse - Viet Thanh Nguyen, author of The Sympathizer and The Refugees, on The Incendiaries

After this impressive introduction of her work to the world, we're excited to see where Kwon takes us in the future - Marie Claire on The Incendiaries

Exhibit is extraordinary: brisk, jolting, brilliant, beautiful, true. A ghost story, a tale of passion, a captivating portrait of how art is made, it turns myths upside down, assumptions inside out, all in the most exquisite prose in the bookstore. Kwon is one of the finest American writers, and her latest is a must for all readers - Andrew Sean Greer, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Less is Lost

A rare jewel of a book, at once forceful and unrepentant, delicate and shimmering. R. O. Kwon carves language into a wondrous, jagged thing, revealing facets of desire usually hidden. To read Exhibit is to feel time slow down - C Pam Zhang, author of How Much of These Hills Is Gold and Land of Milk and Honey

In prose at once sharp and lush, Kwon crafts a gripping tale of a woman wrestling with the past, while boldly making her own future. A haunting and powerful exploration of art, racism, feminism, and desire, this novel will stay with me a long time - Madeline Miller, author of Circe

Exhibit is sensational - a novel that's both intimate and operatic, singular and world-encompassing. Kwon's prose is soulful and piercing, chronicling the many ways we lose and find ourselves, blending love and sex and fables between the infinite folds that encompass desire. Exhibit is entirely captivating, and Kwon is truly masterful; it's a book for the mind and the heart and the body, an actual tour de force - Bryan Washington, author of Family Meal and Memorial

I tore through this. Exhibit explores how obliteration can be a kind of rebirth, how the nuances of that are complicated by the constraints of chosen and socially imposed identities. Kwon writes about art and ardor with urgency - Raven Leilani, author of Luster