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The Incendiaries
First edition cover
AuthorR. O. Kwon
Audio read byKeong Sim[1]
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
GenreBildungsroman
Set inNoxhurst, New York
PublisherRiverhead Books
Publication date
July 31, 2018
Media typePrint (Hardcover and Paperback) and e-book
Pages224
ISBN978-0-7352-1389-0
OCLC1101143948
Dewey Decimal
813/.6
LC ClassPS3611.W68 I53 2019

The Incendiaries is a 2018 novel by R. O. Kwon, published by Riverhead Books. The novel was inspired by Kwon's own loss of faith in God at the age of 17, and it took her 10 years to finish.[2][3][4]

The novel follows a young woman who is indoctrinated into a cult on her campus as told by three characters: Phoebe Lin, the woman who is recruited, John Leal, the man who recruits her, and Will Kendall, a fellow student who loves Phoebe and struggles to understand her choices.

  1. ^ "The Incendiaries by R. O. Kwon". Penguin Random House Audio. Retrieved October 4, 2019.
  2. ^ Fassler, Joe. "A Writer's Fixation on Sound". Retrieved October 16, 2018.
  3. ^ Beckley, Sarah. "Novelist R.O. Kwon on Losing Her Religion". Retrieved October 16, 2018.
  4. ^ "Grief That Drives: R.O. Kwon by Colin Winnette - BOMB Magazine". bombmagazine.org. Retrieved December 6, 2018.

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