![]() ![]() The Incendiaries tweaks the conventional campus novel formula in a few crucial ways: First of all, some of the key characters here are Korean-American. Whether the infatuation is sexual, social or intellectual, the once naïve protagonist always pays for the experience in pain and a permanent case of wistfulness. However it riffs on the particulars, the standard campus novel always features an impressionable main character destined to fall under the spell of a charismatic professor - or another student, or a closed club or, perhaps rarest of all, an academic subject. Scott Fitzgerald's This Side of Paradise and Donna Tartt's The Secret History - or even farther afield narratives like Tom Wolfe's I Am Charlotte Simmons and Fangirl, by Rainbow Rowell. ![]() ![]() The Incendiaries is a campus novel, and so, true to form, it charts a well-worn path from eager innocence to bruised experience. Kwon's pensive debut novel, The Incendiaries, arrives just in time to stoke up "back-to-school" anxieties, especially those of entering college students and their nervous parents. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title The Incendiaries Author R. ![]()
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