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The incendiaries

by R. O. Kwon · 2018

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A young Korean-American woman at an elite American university is drawn into acts of domestic terrorism by a cult tied to North Korea and then disappears, leading a fellow student into an obsessive search for her.

Genre
coming of agecoming of ageMore like thisLess of thisliterary fictionliterary fictionMore like thisLess of this
Themes
cultscultsMore like thisLess of thisterrorismterrorismMore like thisLess of this
Setting
2010s2010sMore like thisLess of thiscollegecollegeMore like thisLess of this
Audience
adult
Length
medium · 224 pages

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